tv The Papers BBC News October 18, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines — the mayor of greater manchester accuses boris johnson of exaggerating the spread of coronavirus in the area to try to persuade local leaders to accept tougher restriction as he calls for increased financial support. anywhere could end up in tier 3 this winter. in fact, i would say places are likely to end up in tier 3 this winter. therefore it's everyone‘s concern that we protect the lowest—paid in our communities. the earlier we have the restrictions in those areas where there is high instance, the better for the economy of those areas because we stop the infection spreading in a way which will do further damage to the economy. the government says there have been nearly 17,000 more cases of coronavirus in the uk,
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reported in the last 2a hours and a further 67 people have died. there's fierce debate over possible further lockdown restrictions in wales that could last for up to three weeks. an annoucement could be made in the next 2a hours. vigils and rallies are held across france after a teacher was beheaded in an islamist attack close to his school in a paris suburb on friday. 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, martin lipton, and the economics commentator grace blakeley. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. 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
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as well as game—changing treatments. while the daily express says front—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 says greater manchester could soon run out of beds to treat people left seriously ill with covid—19 and some of the region's 12 hospitals are already full. the times suggests borisjohnson is ready to offer tens of millions of pounds to head off a northern revolt against tougher coronavirus curbs in which key tories have sided with andy burnham, the mayor of greater manchester. while the metro reports andy burnham is asking that mps are allowed to vote on extra funding for any area moved into tier 3 in order to prevent "economic disaster". according to the financial times, europe's economy is sliding towards a double—dip recession, with economists warning that rising coronavirus infections and fresh government restrictions on people's
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movement are likely to cut short the region's recent recovery. and 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 standing in the world. let's look at the times this addition. millions in it for manchester to buy off corona result. could be 100 million according to some estimates because the government desperately wants them to government desperately wants them to go into tier 3 willingly. it does and there is the issue there because of the moment there is unholiness and what makes it more complicated for the government and the story saysis for the government and the story says is senior tories in the town and better manchester, including rather unfortunately for boris johnson the chairman of the
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1922 committee of backbench tory mps graham brady have aligned themselves with andy burnham and said we will not do it unless we get a concession and the concession is money to help keep the local economy going. and it's a difficult dilemma for the government. burnham is engaged in some sort of pot they do with government at the moment it's fair to say. he is sticking with his corner and ignoring the big bats of michael gove, others would say he has been intransigent and is refusing to budge to the reality of a need to act swiftly and decisively to head off an extreme spread of the virus. it's a messy scenario no question. indicative of the ongoing situation that people are still not sure where they are. there are parts of the country like london that had just had the mayor urging government effectively to put us into tier 2 but a better manchester they don't wa nt to but a better manchester they don't want to go into tier 3 and perhaps
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they may have to. liverpool have already gone. no one knows where we are going to end up, do we? the metro saying let's put it up to a vote with andy burnham saying the house of commons should decide. he thinks he has enough support when this vote and of course it does make sense that those areas that are being forced into what is effectively a local log i should have the same support we saw during the last lock down some support for workers and also support for small businesses to make sure that we don't have a big spike in on a big spike in unappointed or people going to work even when they perhaps should not be because they don't have the support that they need. and also the impact there will be on small businesses is really significant and you don't want to see a big swathe of insolvencies all the same time. so this is a very sensible call from andy burnham and obviously not going to be able to tackle the virus unless there is adequate economic support in place. i think what is most interesting what the story that is it is really one of the first kind
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of really big issues on which those combined authorities like better manchester which were obviously created by conservative government have locked horns with westminster. and of course you live in a very centralised political system where a lot of power is in london and westminster with taxes raised and spent in westminster and this was kind ofan spent in westminster and this was kind of an initiative of george osborne and david cameron's conservative government to decentralise power and it's coming back to bite the conservatives. the guardian has got hold of a leaf report saying hospitals in the north are running out of space. particularly in salford, stop war and bolted where they are already at maximum capacity. this documents some of the region's 12 hospitals are already full and obviously there is some concern about the impact of the virus according to
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these stats that 211 of 257 critical care beds in greater manchester which is 82% are being used already for people with covid—19 or other particularly illnesses and it's a real concern, a major problem. and the danger of course is it's going to get worse. there is only so much capacity and they are going to have to find a way if nothing changes of i don't know how but obviously a nightingale style response, another sort of emergency stand up hospital may be required to look after the other serious intensive illnesses that need to be cared for as well. it's a huge concern. and where manchester leads, the rest may follow suit if we cannot control and that i guess would argue strongly for the need to go into either a tier 3 over the circuit breaker that's been discussed by keir starmer because nothing has to be done. at the
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moment the illness is getting out of control again and we look atjust under 5000 people hospitalized at the moment, which is a huge number and there are only so many beds in the nhs. and the telegraph talks about that with protecting nhs, the method given earlier in the year we we re method given earlier in the year we were all in lockdown. but it that non—covid—19 patients have not been admitted. this is a story about how admissions were serious illnesses have fallen by up to 90% through the crisis and this was always a big consideration was you did not have lock downs but you attempted to slow the spread of the virus. they were calling it flattening the curve. and you have hospitals not overloaded with patients for covid—19 and of course that would mean to real issues of treating those patients but also other people with other illnesses would either go into hospital that was full or be unable to go or to receive primary care as well. seeing their
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teepees as well as other routine procedures so we are seeing a lot of long—term impact oi'i are seeing a lot of long—term impact on what would otherwise be like things not being diagnosed and is of course it's always been on the back of what we already knew when it came to the nhs which was significant issues in terms of staffing and capacity. that was already the thinking last year about going into another winter where you would honestly have an increase in demand for those services. so there are a whole load of issues going on here and we have not even spoken about social care, which is a real significant part of the crisis at the moment. so really more is needed but more than anything we need to slow this virus. we are struggling to hear you a little bit because the sound is not fantastic but we can make out most of it. i don't know why but sometimes it has to do with one's laptop. the i with vaccines
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coming but not before christmas according to this front page, martin. this is sirjeremy fowler, pa rt martin. this is sirjeremy fowler, part of sage. all very basic information on the front page. at fort block paragraphs really but the basic story is there. there is light at the end of the tunnel with multiple vaccines available bite march. downing street are offering them to manchester and partisan politics putting lives at risk. interesting is when the vaccine comes and similarly the express has a same story but their headline was much more positive about vaccines available bite christmas. neither story is wrong but it is just picking the day. not before christmas or by the end of the year, same date. glasses either full —— half—full or half—empty and i think it event where we are but what is clear is everybody throughout the world and not just clear is everybody throughout the world and notjust in the uk is desperately hoping for something which may not happen.
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certainly not quickly. vaccines, trials of vaccines are not guaranteed to succeed and you can succeed, succeed and succeed through multiple stages and succeed through multiple stages and then hit a brick wall where something goes wrong and it is happening many, many times in the past. should we should not get complacent and because things are going well they may continue to go well and let's hope they do and please hope they do because we all wa nt to please hope they do because we all want to get back to some degree of normality. but it's not that easy. look at the times. trump could win neck and neck race warnsjoe biden. basically same to be supporters or voters don't leave it to chance. lot of this comes down to the fact many people in the democratic party feel that one of the things —— reasons they lost as they took voters for gra nted reasons they lost as they took voters for granted in 2016 and did not bother campaigning too hard in the states they were going to win like michigan and wisconsin and minnesota. and pennsylvania and of course they lost three of those and
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gave donald trump the presidency. this is the warning. keep going, don't take this for granted. the biggest fearfor don't take this for granted. the biggest fear for democrats is people think it is in the bag and don't come out and vote. that is why even though there is an added county and the poles of the white working—class noncollege educated electorate in 2016, if the 0bama vote comes out for hillary clinton, she went. biden is trying to keep death with the pressure on to scare his voters to go to the polls. remember we have all these issues about early voting which is starting and mailing voting and people worrying about voting on the day because of being in the cues and all the elements. sojoe biden understandably feels he is an average of 10.6 points in front with civics to go so it is his to lose but complacency can be the biggest killer in any election. in the end it just killer in any election. in the end itjust comes down to some key
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states and actually in their scheme of things it really comes down to quite a small number of votes. and of course what happened last time was donald trump managed to win a load of votes from often less educated blue—collar workers in a bunch of very important swing states that often had previously swung for democrats. the big question here that he faces and honestly everyone is very concerned with the fact that they underestimated his chances last time and don't want to do that again but we do have to bear in mind that donald trump is an incompetent fighting an election in the concept ofa fighting an election in the concept of a massive economic crisis. one that in terms of unemployment and long—term impact could end up being more severe than the financial crisis, so i think potentially the danger of voters not turning out to end up falling on donald trump. people who are otherwise enthused about his message on law and order which he is trying to make the central feature of his campaign actually thinking why should i go out and vote for this guy again when
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i have not got a job and my long—term economic prospects don't look so good. so i think it's a much bigger challenge for donald trump to some around all the while he is trying to do is obvious we create this big substantial divide in the us and deepen it which is on this black lives matter and law—and—order candidate lycee i'm the only person you will be safe with which is a very divisive tactic and is an attempt to really shift voters attention away from the economy. talk to us about what is on the guardian. boomerang offspring are here to stay as prospects evaporate. these are young adults who cannot afford to leave their parents home or have to go back. this is a very interesting story for me because during the beginning of the pandemic, during the start of locked out i went back to my parents house for about six months. because i was not really sure what the financial impact was going to be on me and obviously rent in london is as everyone who lives here knows extraordinarily high and it is
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difficult for young people to get on the property ladder and at the same time we had a decade of wage stagnation since a federal crisis which will only get worse now. and thatis which will only get worse now. and that is being proportionally felt by the young. in a think it's funny but this crisis is you know that when you have financial crises or economic crises of this scale there isa economic crises of this scale there is a scarring effect on your people's incomes and implant prospects which means that the generation who are currently in education are having a terrible time and those coming into the workforce are going to have any clue difficult time and people around my age, new millennialist, they seem to really substantial economic crises in their lifetimes and have not really had much of bounce back from that. and also facing a lot of other economic issues. very briefly, martin, you andi issues. very briefly, martin, you and i not off the hook for quite a while then. it is going to be a long time and at the white to leslie before they can come back but alley behind the curve but i suspect that my kids will have to if they want to
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