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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around further damage to the economy. the world. the government says there have been huge crowds rally across france, nearly 17,000 more cases in solidarity and defiance of coronavirus in the uk, following friday's brutal murder reported in the last 2a hours, of a teacher near and a further 67 paris in a suspected people have died. islamist attack. there's fierce debate over possible further lockdown restrictions in wales that deadlock between the mayor could last for up to three weeks. of greater manchester and the uk an annoucement could be made prime minister over the imposition of tougher coronavirus restrictions in the in the next 2a hours. vigils and rallies are held city. across france after a teacher civilians count the cost as was beheaded in an islamist attack armenia close to his school and azerbaijan blame each in a paris other suburb on friday. for violating a humanitarian truce in nagorno—karabakh. a convicted murderer who became the hero of november's terror attack on london bridge is to be considered for release from prison ten months early. and coming up — the story of a man who tweeted that he was not ok, hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the chief sports reporterfor the sun,
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martin lipton and the economics commentator, grace blakeley. welcome to you both. thank you very much forjoining me. fascinated by your choices of backdrop tonight. it's almost like you sort of arranged it. i've gone for osteo. but there is that panelling look. what are yours? they are screens. i've recently moved house. what are yours? they are screens. i've recently moved houseli what are yours? they are screens. i've recently moved house. i think it looks very, very smart. we will talk about screens in a minute. carreon, grace. i wasjust talk about screens in a minute. carreon, grace. iwasjust seeing talk about screens in a minute. carreon, grace. i wasjust seeing my explanation is that i have recently moved house. i would keep it ifi we re moved house. i would keep it ifi were you. it is better than mine and i have been there years. let's look at the front pages, shall we? according to the i, a uk leading scientific adviser offers "light at the end of the tunnel" saying multiple vaccines will be available by march as well as game—changing treatments, while the daily express says front
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line health staff could get a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year before it is rolled out across the uk in early 2021. the daily telegraph reports the impact of efforts to protect the nhs from the pandemic with hospital admissions for serious illnesses plummeting by up to 90%. the guardian reports greater manchester could soon run out of beds to treat people left seriously ill with covid—i9, and some of the region's 12 hospitals are already full. the metro reports the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham, is asking that mps are allowed to vote on extra funding for any area moved into tier three in order to prevent "economic disaster." the financial times says europe's economy is sliding towards a double—dip recession, with economists warning that rising coronavirus infections and fresh government restrictions on people's movement are likely to cut short the region's recent recovery. the daily mail says borisjohnson is on a collision course with the church over brexit as the uk's five anglican archbishops warn that controversial legislation would set a "disastrous precedent" and undermine britain's
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standing in the world. and according to the daily mirror, political leaders are united behind a call for a doorstep two—minute silence on remembrance sunday. there is actually a lot in the papers tonight. we will start with manchester, though, and here is the metro's take on it. let's take it to a vote, andy burnham coleman for a vote in the commons to break the impasse, he said. should you get extra funding if you are automatically put into tier 3, the most serious restrictions? well, i think what has been made very clear re ce ntly think what has been made very clear recently is that we are not going to be able to have a sustained recovery without tackling the virus and we are not going to be able to tackle the virus without adequate economic support, so i think andy burnham is right to point out that it is not reasonable to think entire swathes of the country can go into what is effectively a form of lockdown
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without providing what we have had over the past couple of months which is been support for workers and support for businesses. 0bviously the furlough scheme is coming to an end and tapering off into the job support scheme with the job retention bonus happening next year, but it is not the same level of support. the same thing is happening, not so much in that news, but the support provided to businesses, especially small businesses, especially small businesses who have received grants and loans. those are potentially not going to be renewed, so we are facing something of a cliff edge in terms of both the unemployment crisis and the problem is particularly facing small businesses in terms of their solvency going forward , in terms of their solvency going forward, so it does make sense really if we are going to have a long winter of lockdowns, which it does seem as though we may, to have more measures in place. martin, let's look at the guardian, this is the medical side of things in the north of england. the north—west in particular, hospitals in the north
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are running out of beds. this is a week, what was it? alle leaked report saying that the 12 regions in the north—west around greater manchester, some of them, particularly ss salford, stockport and bolton are already at maximum capacity with no spare beds and i think this paints the picture of the problems that are being faced throughout the highly infected areas. we know what happens when we have a shortage of ic you beds, etc. we have seen this earlier this year and it adds to the sense of adults make the necessity it seems for the ongoing pressure from the mayors on the government, they are all out for the government, they are all out for the best deal, but irrespective of their political background, they need the money to pay for the extra issues that are ongoing. the government appears reluctant to do so government appears reluctant to do so and on top of that, you have the economic arguments being voiced by
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both sides about the long—term costs which are being born in terms of people working and earning a living, so we people working and earning a living, so we have all these issues ongoing. this is specific to greater manchester hospital struggling, so they are heading towards being overwhelmed by the number of people with covid—i9. overwhelmed by the number of people with covid-19. stay with you for the daily telegraph, talking about £100 million that might be offered to manchester to get them to go into that top tier. it is all about finding the deal, isn't it? this suggests that borisjohnson will today offer manchester may be up to £1 million to accept the corbett restrictions. we know there is a dispute, clearly, between andy burnham who says there were constructive talks today with downing street. let's see if that is the case. it also says in this piece that mrjohnson wants to avoid imposing tier 3 status without local consent and you can see why. if you
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impose something which is unpopular and people feel is not necessary, evenif and people feel is not necessary, even if the medics tell you it is, you are making yourself a hostage of fortune there. it is a real issue and it is interesting because we have an situation where some parts of the country are going into tier 2 london nsx and some parts are desperate not go frontier to duty three. you wonder if it ends up with the whole country into your three. staying with the daily telegraph, patients paying a price for protecting the nhs with admissions massively down. this was always one of the concerns when we were talking about whether or not to impose strict lockdowns was, of course, when you get the virus spreading a great deal then you have less capacity in the nhs, fewer people willing and able to go to hospitals
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and, indeed, to private care and in the long—term, the impact of this on people's health is that you do get cases of other chronic illnesses that are not detected earlier rising and itjust that are not detected earlier rising and it just really that are not detected earlier rising and itjust really re—emphasises the fa ct and itjust really re—emphasises the fact that getting the economy back on track, getting people's health by contract really does require getting the virus under control, so the health system can continue to cater to people's usual needs and, indeed, we did have the nhs relatively strained even before the pandemic hit. we were set for what was potentially going to look like quite a difficult winter in terms of cases of older people suffering from flu and all sorts of usual things that you see, so there are kind of chronic problems in the nhs that are being exacerbated by the fact that people are now either unwilling or unable to go into acute—care and often primary care to get some of those basic dealt with,
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so unless we do begin to see a levelling off of new cases, as we do begin to see a levelling off of new cases, as we did see earlier in the year when the harsher lockdown measures were imposed, then this problem is only going to get worse. the daily express is looking forward to the first vaccine doses against covid—19, martin, ready by the end of the year for covid—19, martin, ready by the end of the yearfor some. covid—19, martin, ready by the end of the year for some. it's remarkable that the same facts can be treated entirely differently, so the express front page is first doses ready by end of year. vaccine not before christmas, which is also the end of the year. so there you 90, the end of the year. so there you go, strange. you can put a thrust on anything if you want to. let's talk about the people within the health service perhaps being given the chance to be the first to use a potential vaccine and we are all hoping... we had warnings from governments and scientists last week that we are looking at spring if not summer before we get a fully widespread virus
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being available, others are trying to push a much earlier date. the problem is we do not know. it is just hope. even the end of the year concept is determinant on all of the trials ongoing continuing to work well without a single setback and as any scientist will tell you, and i am not one, when you do scientific research on viruses and vaccines, rather, there tend to be complications. it is not a simple process. it is very difficult even when you have the greatest scientific minds on the planet working, as they all are it seems, on this issue and finding a cure or a vaccine and then a cure. it is not a vaccine and then a cure. it is not a simple process. let's look at the daily mail, shall we, grace? no paper revealed would be complete without a mention of brexit. the archbishops are not happy with the internal market bill. would you like me to show it to you? is that what you wanted ?
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me to show it to you? is that what you wanted? there we are. please explain, grace. this is a noveltake on the brexit conundrum, so five anglican archbishops have warned that the legislation that is being proposed at the moment could set a disastrous precedent and undermined britain's standing in the world. this is, of course, relating to the government's potential threat of not reaching a trade deal with the european union. now there is a lot of brinksmanship going on here. the government would prefer to have a deal, but there are some sticky issues that neither side really want to compromise on and what is interesting is this story at the moment about the kind of potential ofa no moment about the kind of potential of a no deal is it would obviously particularly disastrous to have to deal with the economic impact and bureaucracy of trying to disentangle so many of the kind
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of processes, the institutions that unite the uk and the rest of the european union during what is already a time of significant economic stress and obviously of big demands on the state, but actually, the government might be thinking and, indeed, the eu might be thinking that there is all this chaos going on elsewhere so it might be less noticeable and it does seem as though this story is being swept under the rug as new restrictions are brought in and we see coronavirus cases restrictions are brought in and we see coronavirus cases going up and perhaps the government is hoping that they can just kind of allow this to happen, allow them to take this to happen, allow them to take this really big gamble without anyone really noticing and that is the real danger so i think that is probably why this intervention has come in, although it does raise some questions about the political role of the anglican church. they do sit in the house of lords, though, martin, so they are expected to speak on these matters. it's not that long ago, i think you will both remember, when the church of england
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was described as the conservative party at prayer. that ended, i think, when the thatcher government fell at with david jenkins and others at the time who were questioning the economic policy of the 19805 government. it is almost as if now we are starting a second wave in the same front, the same war, really, the same battle ground. should religious people, should the church get involved in domestic politics? some would say absolutely yes, others would say no, it is not your place. i suppose it depends what side of the argument you are, what side of the argument you are, what you think. and, from both if i can briefly, europe's second wave... i've struggled to read it because it is shiny, raises a risk of a double—dip recession. there had been a bit ofa double—dip recession. there had been a bit of a recovery, but with cases rising, that is looking troublesome. this was always going to be the danger, if restrictions were relaxed too early and the virus
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researched and that had an impact on confidence and that had an impact on confidence and required new restrictions to be put in place then there was always going to be the danger of a double—dip recession. the thing that makes this most start, i think, is the extreme plunge that use are in output, in gdp levels across many different economies when the first set of lockdown measures were put in place. it was really, really stark figures, many countries lost a fifth or figures, many countries lost a fifth ora figures, many countries lost a fifth or a quarter of figures, many countries lost a fifth ora quarterof theirgdp, figures, many countries lost a fifth or a quarter of their gdp, so you would expect after that, though states to return to growth. the idea that you could have that large of a plunge, a small bounce back and then another plunge, that really does create some another plunge, that really does create some very serious concerns. create some very serious concerns. we are long past the talk now of av shaped recovery. it does look as though the economic impact of this is going to be with many states, particularly in the us, the uk, around europe for quite some time now and i think a lot of places are
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really struggling to think how to respond. if this was an ordinary recession, you would be thinking about measures to boost demand, investment, ideally you would be thinking about green investment to kind of boost decarbonisation efforts as well as boosting demand, but there are these problems about the virus still being there, you cannot put people back to work while you are also trying to get the virus under control. it does bring us back to this point that you can't really deal with the economic impact without dealing with the virus and you cannot deal with the virus without putting in place and economic measures to without putting in place and economic measures to support people. let's finish with the daily mail and what we all have for breakfast. ronnie wood, the rolling stone, says he feeds his children caviar. do your children have caviar, martin? we have something in common with ronnie wood because i put something black on my toast, too, but i go for marmite. i don't think i would go for caviar. at any time of
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day. grace? no kids and don't ever eat caviar! i do like marmite, though. neither. i'm going to have to rethink my breakfast office. porridge? no, no, don't botherwith that either. i just take the porridge? no, no, don't botherwith that either. ijust take the dog porridge? no, no, don't botherwith that either. i just take the dog for a walk and have a cup of coffee. don't go anywhere, martin and grace, we will be back again for another look at the front pages at half past 11. welcome to click. for many of us, 2020 has
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been the year we have all been stuck at home more than we would have liked. now for some, spending more time with our partners has been great. for some, it has started to grate. but there are those for whom being locked down with someone else has been no joke at all. we've heard a lot about how mental health issues have been on the rise because of the pandemic, but so has domestic abuse. and sadly, some technology can make it easier to abuse a partner or even ex—partner who's been trying to break away. the abuse in my relationship was kind of emotional abuse. things being said rather than physical. nothing really being done that was obviously tangible, but that changed very quickly. compounded by a lot of issues during the lockdown, a lot of stress, financial stress as well. i've realised, you know, it was a lot of financial control, control of sort of how often i could work, i realised actually how much he was
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limiting my ability to work. meet kate and sue. well, those are the names we have given to protect their anonymity for their own safety. their stories are some of many experienced during lockdown. in the first few weeks, the police received a domestic disturbance call almost every 30 seconds. in 2019, in the uk alone, there were almost 2.5 million domestic abuse cases reported, and many still go unrecorded. when i was trying to leave, i found that he was monitoring my location on my phone, monitoring my screen time, that was being shared with him. increasingly, technology has become a tool for abuse. survivors often reporting beings stalked through tracking apps on their phones, keyloggers on their computers
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or their lives being controlled through smart devices in their homes. kate sought help from women's domestic violence charity refuge. although such abuse can happen to anyone, women are still three times more likely to experience violence and harassment. and the charity says over 70% of those contacting it have experienced some technological abuse, one of the things it specialises in dealing with. and the law is finally catching up. the uk recently passed a landmark domestic abuse bill recognising that tech abuse is part of the problem. it'll make it illegal to use modern technology to track or spy on a partner or ex—partner. but beyond the legislation, there is a wider debate around the products themselves, and whether they should be designed to offer better
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protection in these scenarios. so a small team of employees at ibm have decided to try and solve the problem. they've devised a new set of design principles for tech companies to build on. right at the beginning of our research, we saw that there is help and guidance available to people who are facing this kind of abuse. but the bulk of it focuses on keeping safe by educating yourself in the technology. we believe that the burden of safety shouldn't fall solely on the shoulders of the end user. the list ibm has devised is long but they do have some interesting points. take for example a box like this, that looks pretty harmless, also a place where you might leave a nice gift message to somebody, or when it comes to online banking, somewhere where you may make a note of a reference. but they are also being used for more sinister purposes. a place where perpetrators can continue their abuse.
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one suggested solution is to make them ‘5mart‘, automatically monitoring for abusive language patterns of behaviour to potentially spot and stop them happening. but some changes suggested are hard to implement and need a bigger rethink. if the devices in our home had obvious alerts when they are remotely activated, and kept a digital record of who did what, when, this would make it difficult for abusers to obscure and distort the truth. furthermore, having a manual override on the devices would return some of the power to the local user. with smart devices becoming more commonplace, this issue has become more urgent to tackle. everything i had was like hand—me—down phones, hand—me—down laptops, so he would set up all the accounts, erm, he would set up
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family sharing on things, there was various alexa devices all over the property, he could go to someone's house and ring the alexa when we were at home. family apps are another area of concern, something that many of us used to monitor our children's safety, but in an abusive relationship they're also the apps that are most open to misuse, because they're all about sharing information. even though location data is central to the apps function, most don't notify users when they've been tracked, or constantly push users to turn location settings on, even when they've been actively disabled. as our digital lives become more intertwined with our home lives, these issues will only become more prevalent. i think the companies should know what the products could be used for, and when you're in a couple and the account is going to be
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registered to one e—mail address, when something goes wrong, the person can't rectify anything or change details, you are stuck. he locked me out of our shared amazon account, which had my credit card details for all the payments. i rang up amazon and i said, "i can't take my card from this account." they said, "sorry, you just have to cancel your bank cards." designs to better protect against controlling and stalking behaviour can improve privacy and security for all of us. but for the hundreds of millions effect by domestic abuse every year, change can't come soon enough. here i am playing a next—gen game on a next—gen machine — the xbox series x. but this is really only a taster of the next—gen experience, rather than the full three courses. you see, the console that i've been
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using for the last couple of weeks is prerelease, that means that lot and lots of things from the user interface to its overall performance will be tweaked and changed by the time people get their hands on the finished machine. so, for the purposes of a preview, we can only really talk about a limited number of its features. the first next—gen games we get to preview are certainly an odd couple. japanese rpg, yakuza: like a dragon, and racing title dirt 5, two completely different games that demonstrate that the next generation looks quite a bit like the current generation, though with a bit more polish. a role—playing game with turn—based combat, like ya kuza, is perhaps not the best title to show off this new machine's new abilities. man: want to fight? a slightly surreal take on life on life as a japanese gangster, it looks nice enough — the smooth frame rate and sharp visuals, but it's not what you'd call a poster child for the next gen. da—da—da—daa! never fear, part—time hero is here!
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for that, you'd need a game with a bit more visual razzle—dazzle, which is where racing titles usually shine. off—road racing across a huge variety of tracks in all weathers is the order of the day here. but again, apart from good, not amazing visuals, i'm yet to get any of the next—gen feels from either of these games. much has been made of the series x's ability to drastically reduce load times. this is in part thanks to its nvme ssd and the velocity architecture which joins up all of the console's new hardware to some smart software. there are still load times, but they're much shorter. when we compare it to the machine it replaces, you can see the differences appear. when you're playing no man's sky, on the one x, it takes about a minute and a half to load. 0n the series x, it's 20 seconds — much faster! and when the game's up and running, we see some stability improvements in the visuals as well.
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then we come to quick resume. 0n current—gen machines, if you want to play a different game to the you've already played, loading up the next title can take several minutes. now it's just seconds. 0n series x, quick resume drastically reduces the time it takes to switch between titles, and games pick up right where you left them. so far i've tested this to be able to resume about five games at any one time, but that could change with the finished machine. lots has been made about backwards compatibility on this generation of consoles, and there is a very large back—compatible catalogue for the series x you can play. it's also been suggested that next—gen games could cost as much as £70 a pop, and the launch line—up of titles for the series x and ps5 isn't exactly stellar. so, a back catalogue of older, but well—regarded games helps bolster the proposition. for series x, it enjoys quite a lot of backwards compatibility, with a lot, but not all xbox games, that includes games from the xbox one, 360
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and original machine. onto the machine itself — it's a commanding presence in the living room, much larger than the machine it replaces — the xbox one x. while the older machine discreetly slots away beneath tvs across the globe, the series x towers next to the tv — it looks a little bit like the monolith from 2001: a space odyssey, however, like most of us during lockdown, it seems to have piled on the pounds. it is a big bit of kit. we're now in the final strait before the launch of all of the next—gen consoles. we'll bring you reviews of this and its cheaper, less powerful sibling, the series s, as well as the ps5 ahead of their launch next month. that's it for the short cut of click for this week. the full—length version is up on iplayer, and it's waiting for you right now. as ever, throughout the week you can find the team on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter, @bbcclick. thank you for watching, and we'll see you soon. bye— bye!
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hello. we've had a spell of quieter, drier weather but wetter weather is on the way back. sunny spells ahead but also spells of heavy rain. it will be targeting northern ireland and scotland, northern ireland and western scotland seeing the most persistent and heavy rain as it continues into monday night, some flooding and disruption. some rain at times in northern england becoming more widespread in north west england into the afternoon, patchy rain in wales. elsewhere may see a bit of hazy brightness. a milder day but the wind picking up an overnight monday into tuesday, this area of rain pushing through england and wales reaching those areas that stay dry during the day and more rain at times
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into scotland and more rain at times into scotland and northern ireland, using wafer northern ireland as the night comes to an end. on tuesday, reigning eastern england clearing away, more showers following especially in northern ireland and scotland, intense downpours. easterly winds and the rain in northern scotland still with us. mile south—east of 00:29:20,057 --> 2147483051:51:24,743 these 2147483051:51:24,743 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 elsewhere.
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