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is decapitated outside his school north of paris. france's president visits the scene and condemns the "cowardly" attack. downing street says talks between the uk and eu over a post—brexit trade agreement are over. borisjohnson is urging businesses to prepare for no deal injanuary. the number of coronavirus infections in europe continues to soar, with daily infection rate records broken in germany, switzerland, croatia and the netherlands. the total infections of covid in the us has now passed 8 million. and the uk prime minister has told the mayor of greater manchester that he is prepared to intervene and impose the highest level of coronavirus restrictions on the region.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are jason beattie, assistant editor at the daily mirror, and stefanie bolzen, uk correspondent for die welt. welcome uk correspondent for die welt. once again. so, let with welcome once again. so, let's start with some of the papers we have already. the times leads on a prediction from scientists that britain will be carrying out a million coronavirus tests a day by christmas. the forecast comes after ministers spent more than £500 million on new testing machines that will more than triple the government's present capacity of about 300,000 tests a day. the i says the uk is heading towards a new national lockdown, as ministers and advisers believe johnson will be bounced into tougher restrictions with cases continuing to rise despite new restrictions. the guardian says borisjohnson has
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attempted to strongarm greater manchester into accepting tougher covid restrictions without providing extra money to protect businesses by claiming every day of delay meant "more people will die". the telegraph says britiains biggest teachers‘ union has backed a so—called "circuit breaker" lockdown and called for secondary schools and colleges to be closed for an extended two—week half term. the ft says borisjohnson has broken off brexit trade talks with the eu throwing down the gauntlet to brussels to adopt "a fundamental "change of approach". the mirror says the prime minister missed his own deadline for the agreement and is now warning the country to get ready for a no—deal brexit that could damage the economy. the express strikes a different tone. it picks up on the prime ministers comment today that britain will "prosper mightily" as an independent trading nation once free from the eu.
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so, let's begin. thank you very much, i am always pres 20 people want to share their friday evenings with me, it remotely. —— always happy when people... we will focus on this headline from the daily mirror. we had this intervention by the prime minister today off the back of the summit of eu leaders in brussels where one of the issues on the agenda was brexit and the prime minister decided that no progress had been made in the talks and therefore he delivered this ultimatum that we should prepare for a no—deal. now, what we've got here is quite a lot of theatrics. this is normal as you get closer to the deadline in any negotiations, you are going to get language and the rhetoric becomes more shrill and
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alarmist. to be fair on both sides. and that is because you have domestic considerations and that is because you have domestic considerations in play. now, the prime minister was deliberately playing a bit of brinkmanship here. 0ne playing a bit of brinkmanship here. one reason is that he previously said that if he didn't feel there was any chance the deal by october the 15th, of course that was yesterday, he would walk away. now he clearly has not walked away and needed a bit of cover for that. we are still in the negotiations playing hardball are still in the negotiations playing hard ball he are still in the negotiations playing hardball he thinks works and he may well be right, we will find out but also he needs a bit of cover because if we are going to get a deal, it is going to require compromises from both sides. and that will require him to give ground and that could be politically difficult and it is going to require possibly the french to give ground
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on fishing which could be difficult for emmanuel macron for subsea can see why politicians play this game. we read in the moments and interpret it today as a lot more about bombast and theatrics and posturing than a genuine attempt to crash the talks because despite what downing street wants you to say, the talks are still on going. they're not going at the same pace yet but they're still talking to each other. and they were meant to go in the sense back and lugging that —— in london, we will come back to london, they were going to come back to linda but and joe merkel saying that today send there would not be facing... in your paper, you have done a piece, a calm
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about the johnson method. paper, you have done a piece, a calm about thejohnson method. talk us through your analysis of what that method is. it is not so much different from what actually jason and the daily mirror are saying, i compared the situation back in 0ctober compared the situation back in october 2019 when the talks went to the wire in that case, it was talks of the withdrawal agreement. now a year later it is talks about the future relationship on what he and britain say are the free—trade agreement back then the prime minister with no deal, with ultimatums, deadlines. and the europeans were not really impressed with that and now even less. 0ne thing that is changed and is really important to say that is the internal market bill that the british government introduced in september and that has really destroyed a lot of trust in how much the british government and the prime ministerjohnson was sick to his
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word. as he will in effect assigned something a year ago and then backtracks on it by domestic legislation. so that is why the talks are also not quite difficult because it is not about only state aid, it is also about governance. so how can you make sure that there will be a mechanism if any party, it cannot be the europeans of course, backtracks on what they have signed, the legal texts that they have signed? how can you make sure that you can react to that immediately? and that was something angela merkel did not say much but she said quite a bit about that. we shall wait and see what happens on monday, how and when and if those talks continues. fascinating day today, quite a busy day when it comes to that. also another busy day when it comes to coronavirus and the different restrictions taking place across the country. the guardian is looking at jason, it is using the words that
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the prime minister is threatening northern leaders in a covid standoff, quite strong words but we have had... it has been quite an emotive day for different parts of england. yes, and what we are seeing is that liverpool was the first city region to agree to go into tier three, this is the highest level of the local lockdowns. lancashire agreed it today but with quite a lot of bitterness. they were accusing government ministers in westminster of "bullying government ministers in westminster of " bullying them" government ministers in westminster of "bullying them" into accepting it. and the greater manchester region is still holding out, still resisting being put into tier three. not because they are not alarmed about the rising covid cases, everybody is worried about that because they say the financial support on offer isn't sufficient. and this is turning into quite an
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ugly political war now between local government and in manchester's as it is led by the greater manchester metro mayor andy burnham but he has conservative mps and counsellors supporting him and a central government and johnson has had quite a busy day delivering ultimatums, delivering another one in this case saying "if we can't reach an agreement i am going to impose tier three on the greater manchester region. and when it comes to the support system stefanie what we are seeing across different areas of england, how is it working in germany? you made a comparison in the last paper review of the kind of regionalized weight that germany is dealing with this pandemic. germany from the beginning, the management of the pandemic was in the hands of
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local or regional authorities and angela merkel, the chancellor in berlin, she doesn't have any... she was trying to bring the 16 prime ministers together and make sure that you do not have a puzzle of different restrictions in different places. —— she doesn't have a consensus. it has now become a big challenge for the federal government to keep the states together because obviously there are hotspots of covid like berlin for example is quite bad. hamburg, they have much stronger restrictions and then the prime ministers of other regions are saying "no, we are not going down the same route" because they say we only have 13 cases per 100,000 while in berlin it is now nearing i think definitely more than 50 per 100,000 cases. but the other thing that is
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not happening and i don't know why it is not happening in the uk, is that local, the hospitality sector is suing the regional government and winds in the courts. for example in berlin already tonight, the city had to lift again the 23 hours lockdown of pubs. there are no legal battles going on while of course this is also confusing further citizens here. it would be interesting to see if it happens here as well. interesting this standoff between those northern regions and the government. the yorkshire post pointing out that next weekjason we have got the great conference where grant shapps is promising a genetic step up in power to the north. it's kind of like the timing is, quite an interesting timing for this. i am sure the great northern conference was scheduled already ahead of this
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but it could be quite awkward, this one. it's always difficult this one, isn't it? we have had conservative governments talk about, it was george oswald who came up for north and seems like northern power has rebooted. and there is definitely a need to and the regional imbalance in england. —— northern powerhouse. levels of investment that go into infrastructural and transport, and the arts in certain parts of the north. i am a ways wary of using the north. i am a ways wary of using the north as a bank at term. newcastle is different from liverpool which is different from yorkshire and humber which is different from manchester. overall, there is a discrepancy in investment and funding. and obviously grant shapps is promising more. let's see what he delivers first before we get too excited
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here, ifi first before we get too excited here, if i was getting up —— if i was living up there i would be tired of all the rhetoric and with the delivery. and of course having won so delivery. and of course having won so many of those redwall seats from a labour in the general election and as you set the timing is interesting because we have this sort of sta ndoff because we have this sort of standoff between the greater manchester region in central government anyway. and they now must deliver on their promises and you are absolutely right to pick up on that phraseology the north. the times, stefanie we have another promise, another prediction. i million tests a date result in 15 minutes by christmas, this is all a lot of money being spent on this. if this does happen, this could be a game changer. yeah, i worked at this andi game changer. yeah, i worked at this and i thought maybe the times was trying to find some positivity in this rather bleak weekend. —— i
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looked at this. of course this would bea looked at this. of course this would be a major step. especially for situations like in schools where these bubbles are formed where for now if one child is ill and tests positive, then the whole bubble which often is a whole year group has to stay at home for 14 days and this is interrupting learning, this is interrupting social interaction of children and makes it very difficult for parents in terms of childcare and so on and so forth. the idea if you have a pregnancy style 15 minutes and covid test is much to hope for and to help get the pandemic under control and keep the economy moving and so on. what do you reckon, jason, is this realistic? will we see this happening? the person who is... there could be some scepticism, the
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prime minister himself when he announced this what what's like he was trying to give somebody a little bit of good news in this press co nfe re nce bit of good news in this press conference but he did point out that it is going to take time to develop this. and not everybody will get this. and not everybody will get this test immediately and a bit which slightly worried me was when he said that to get this right, it's going to take a bit of time and i'm quoting him, "many organisations can buy and operate these tests" it was the word by, these tests on free, can we all afford them? and businesses all afford them? and how available are they going to be? there is a lot to dig into that, all in the detail. let's turn to the daily mail which is focusing on a totally different front page, not coronavirus, not brexit, mobile phones, stefanie and this is increasing, you are not even allowed to touch a phone according
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to the paper and you will get a fine. you will get fined £200 for even just fine. you will get fined £200 for evenjust picking fine. you will get fined £200 for even just picking up your phone fine. you will get fined £200 for evenjust picking up your phone if you are caught by the police and a p pa re ntly you are caught by the police and apparently there has also been a campaign by the daily mail, they are causing some loopholes. according to statistics, every day five people die in car accidents on average and 68 more are injured and increasingly, the causes for that is people being distracted by their mobile phones and i think we all remember this horrific accident of a whole family being killed i think it was around four years ago somewhere in northern england when a glory driver was changing his music on his phone and then crashed into a small car. “ phone and then crashed into a small car. —— when a lorry driver. so that isa car. —— when a lorry driver. so that is a good reason to make sure people get tougherfines is a good reason to make sure people get tougher fines for using mobile while they are driving their car.
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kind of makes sense as with the seat belts. hopefully that will make people think twice. which leads us onto the daily telegraph and i knowjason which leads us onto the daily telegraph and i know jason you're a big fan of strictly come dancing, i have not been asked to be on it yet. i know, they are missing a trick here but on a note, it will be a rather different strictly come dancing with one of the judges on her own, a table for one. there are photos showing the judges in a row, they are just not socially distance, they are just not socially distance, theyjust they are just not socially distance, they just have they are just not socially distance, theyjust have these gold phones. it will be slightly different in terms of the presentation but i think the country needs strictly, don't wait the same we tied microwave we need ba ke—off. the same we tied microwave we need bake-off. bake-off was slightly different because it was a different
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feel where is this we will see will be under different measures. will it run through or will stefanie, it have to stop for whatever reason? what is happening in germany quizzing is there a strictly german version? i think it is called come dance with me. i must submit i'm not a regular part of the audience of these dance shows but i really should keep up with that because it seems like it is very much a british pa rt seems like it is very much a british part of the culture and i will make sure that now being so much at home i will watch strictly come dancing. as jason touched upon we need strictly as a water cooler moment i was suggesting to somebody earlier but you don't have those water cooler moments because people aren't going into offices and we cannot conjugate. the one thing is we could put the damper on is the curse of
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strictly, no social distancing allowed. 0k, we will see what happens on saturday but good luck to the team and as always thank you so much to both of you for sharing your friday evening with me. it has been an absolute pleasure as always. as and when the invitation, jason and stefa nie to and when the invitation, jason and stefanie to come on strictly, i think we will make time for it. thank you for sharing your evening and going through the papers and thank you also to you for watching. and if you also to you for watching. and if you would like to make any comments the hashtag is papers. i'm lizzie greenwood—hughes, here with your latest sports news. and we're starting with rugby union because bristol have won their first european trophy. they beat french giants toulon 32—19 in the challenge cup final, the second tier european cup competition. toulon are one of the most
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successful clubs in european rugby but they were well beaten by bristol, who were only promoted back to the top tier of english rugby two years ago. max malins got the crucial second half score in the south of france. bristol's celebrations could be muted though as they're on stand by to replace wasps in the premiership final next weekend if there's a coronavirus outbreak. tomorrow exeter play racing in the champions cup final. the english football league transfer window ended today without any massive movers but there are a few to tell you about. west ham have signed brentford winger benrahma. it's initially on a loan deal but the premier league side will have to buy him and the deal could end up costing £30 million crystal palace have bought another keeper — stoke's former england keeper jack butland who's still only 27 — is making the move to south london for around £1 million. and tottenham have signed the young wales centre—backjoe rodon from swansea on a five—year deal.
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the fee is 11 million plus add ons. and this is how rodon was greeted on arrival at the spurs training ground by his fellow players including gareth bale. we've got a welsh lad here at the security gate. send him back, send him back! there was one match in the championship tonight in which watford beat derby i—0 at pride park. goal—less for most of the game, the 19—year—old brazilianjoao pedro scored a brilliant winner for watford in the 76th minute, bending the ball past the derby keeper. watford are up to fifth but struggling derby stay 20th in the table. the premier league and the scottish premiership gets back to action this weekend after the international break with two much anticipated lunchtime derbies tomorrow. the old firm in glasgow kicks off at 12.30 whilst at the same time on merseyside — champions liverpool take on everton
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who are top of the table with four wins from four. and everton‘s perfect start is no surprise tojurgen klopp who appreciates the work that carlo ancelotti is doing at goodison. carlo is a sensational manager and so it's clear when he has the time to build something that he will do that and have the resources to build something then that's what he did. so this team looks really, really good. i would like to say something different but it's not possible and so that's of course a proper challenge. the challenge of liverpool could be really good for us but of course liverpool is doing so well and i think we are not so far but we are still far from them and as i said you can have a good test tomorrow against them to see how far we are.
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the glasgow derby — the old firm is back after a ten—month gap. rangers are top — a point above celtic, who have a game in hand. celtic are going for their tenth successive title but with scotland in a version of lockdown, and no fans at the game, celtic manager neil lennon has joined the appeals for fans to be mindful of the current covid situation. please enjoy the game at home. you know, stay with your family. don't put yourself or anyone else in jeopardy. with everything that's going on and hopefully we put a performance in that you can be proud of and you can enjoy the game. please, don't travel. it's not ideal. we are all in the same situation and we're all doing our best to come out of this. as quickly as possible. british boxer anthony joshua will defend his world heavyweight title against bulgaria's kubrat pulev in london on december the 12th. the two had originally been due to fight injune this year,
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but it was postponed due to the pandemic. it's the second time the fight has been rescheduled — joshua was initially booked to take on pulev on back in 2017 in cardiff, that's when these pictures were filmed. but the bulgarian withdrew after he injured his shoulder in training. december‘s fight should be joshua's last, before an all—british unification match against tyson fury next year. britain'sjo konta has pulled out of next week's wta event in the czech republic. the british number one says she doesn't feel comfortable travelling with covid cases on the rise. it means she won't play again this year and will focus on preparing for the 2021 season. we're midway through this year's indian premier league, eoin morgan has taken over as captain of the kolkata knight riders, the england white ball skipper replaced dinesh karthik who wants to focus on his batting. karthik though only made four against the mumbai indians this afternoon, but morgan and australia's pat cummins rescued the knight riders
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with an unbroken partnership of 87. morgan was 39 not out. but it wasn't enough and mumbai comfortably chased down their 149 target with eight wickets and 19 balls to spare. that's all the sport for now. hello there, the weather is set to change in a big way next week. 0h, to change in a big way next week. 0ctober has fou| quieter 0h, 0ctober has found a spot of quieter weather for the 0h, 0ctober has found a spot of quieter weatherfor the middle 0h, 0ctober has found a spot of quieter weather for the middle of the month, so different from how the month started, a reminderfrom the met office about how wet it was on the 3rd of october and adding up all the 3rd of october and adding up all the rainfall, the met office says it was the uk's wettest day on record, record going back to 1891. you could more than fill walk nest with it, and when you consider the uk passing varied weather, climate scientists say it does fit the pattern of increasing rainfall in the uk because of climate change. the
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weather pattern this weekend doesn't scream rain at a. high—pressure extending across the uk, that said party of cloud and fairly white rain to start the day. not amounting to very much in the rain gauge and that continues into scotland into the afternoon. the chance of a few heavy showers running towards a channel islands towards devon and cornwall, sunny spells rarely on offer, receptors a re sunny spells rarely on offer, receptors are a bit below average for the time of year. not much changing to sunday so a good deal of cloud around. this week weather front will make for a cool feeling day across scotland in northeast england and may still have clout and patchy rain associated with that somewhere through incan and wales to start the day before with them back northwards allowing it to brighton for the afternoon in wales and southern england, milder here, thickening cloud in western scotland later and outbreaks of rain started to move in. this changes going into
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monday as low—pressure forms, more weather comes oui’ monday as low—pressure forms, more weather comes our way and that means wet or windy rain into parts of northern england and scotland, increasing cut elsewhere and england and wales may hazy brightness apart —— across parts of england and could turn mother and i am not sure if it will feel to different out there for supper overnight and into tuesday, it could push its way northwards and bring a spell of rain across, but this will clear way on to so it looks like what we left with on tuesday perhaps the longest was of rain and northern england and scotland, it could be blustery and quite heavy but also sunny spells in between. and temperatures reaching towards the mid—teens perhaps getting up to around 17 degrees was not and london on tuesday afternoon. milder than recently but it is quite went of there. then looking at the
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picture going into wednesday, low— pressure picture going into wednesday, low—pressure very much in control here so we are going to see from that for the outbreaks of rain or showers around some of those could be quite heavy and thunder in places, it doesn't look like too many of us are likely to stay dry, some rain at some stage of the day. that is how it looks into wednesday for the remainder of the week, this area of low pressure looks like it will very gradually pulled towards scandinavia allowing who were quieter whether to follow with showers around and could well be going into the following weekend where we see further areas of low pressure coming oui’ way. where we see further areas of low pressure coming our way. we keep our close eye on those. we have established it is all relatively quiet right now but into next week, the wind will pick up, we know it is turning wetter again, and technically milderfor a turning wetter again, and technically milder for a time. turning wetter again, and technically milderfor a time. i am not sure it will feel to different. autumn very much on the return.
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this is bbc news — with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm kasia madera... a teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the prophet muhammad is decapitated north of paris — france's president condemns it as a cowardly attack. translation: our fellow citizen was attacked in a cowardly way. he was the victim of an islamist terrorist attack. a no—deal brexit looks to be on the cards — as the uk calls off further trade talks with the european union. we need to continue the negotiations and i hope but i repeat, we are determined to reach a deal, but not at any. the united nations warns of a new wave of violence in afghanistan — that could threaten
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