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a fictional authoritarian regime which has stolen power. the themes of protest and the power of the individual to spark change certainly resonate in today's climate. it's very reflective of the times and we as people need to be coming together, do you know what i mean? i kind of think they capture that perfectly in the sense of, like, your everyday person being more important than they probably realise. the rapper's appearance in this title highlights that games will now often act as a reflection of things going on in the real world, encouraging new audiences to think about global events. there is a long history of music being used for protest and to provoke. do you think that video games have the power to do that as well? whatever mediums we use as creatives and artists is a platform, yeah, to speak out against injustice, for it to be like pillars
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of truth and whatnot. away from his music career, stormzy announced earlier this year he's funding a £10 million anti—racism foundation. this as well as establishing a bursary to pay for a full scholarship for two black uk students to attend cambridge university. it's always been an uneven playing field in many areas of society. if things were just fair and it was a level playing then there would be no need for them. yeah, i always feel like people just have to open their eyes a bit more to why i'm doing these things and why there are so many other public figures doing these things, to try and just, do you know what i mean, uplift those who need it a bit more. from south london grime star to glastonbury headliner, stormzy has found in the world of gaming a new place to spread his message. mark cieslak, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.
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welcome to bbc news. hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, the chief executive director of the cross—party think tank, ‘demos‘ and claire cohen, the women's editor of the daily telegraph. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. the fighting between azerbaijan and armenian forces takes centre stage on the new york times —
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they show the funeral of a volunteer soldier who spentjust two weeks at the front. the uk's metro says that test and trace is ‘down the pan as borisjohnson admits the tracing system ‘must improve‘. the guardian also takes up that story saying the chancellor is forced to dig deeper on anger and the level of supports for jobs, forced to dig deeper on anger and the level of supports forjobs, and now for the polish press. it is leaving on a controversial court ruling saying that abortions in cases of fatal defects are unconstitutional. making their stricter laws even stricter. the daily mail lead on a study by the medicaljournal the lancet which says staying indoors does not stop the virus and barely changes the r rate. the times is leaving on a story that
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says that £2 billion has been lost to fraudsters who targeted the governments to fraudsters who furloughs. so let's begin. the telegraph is suddenly disappeared on me. thank you so much to our guests. always good to have you with us. start with the mail. this study that they have that staying in does not stop the virus. that was the low point, wasn't it? stand was meant to stop virus. the science around coronavirus continues to develop and change. we have a whole range of different papers that emerge from the medical committee that advance our understanding. what's difficult is when we had a really strict lockdown in the late spring of this year, drop dramatically. it doesn't seem like
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envy of the restrictions that would be putting in place since, regional restrictions or tears, none of those seem to in fact working to suppress the numbers. in some places which see slight improvements, shifts to the curve. most interesting thing to me about this whole debate is actually even when the. our rate and the numbers down dramatically earlier in the year lots of transmissions were happening in hospitals in care homes. hospital infections. the problem is that when people are in those kinds of environments, that's when you get super spreaders in huge numbers of transmissions. this paper seems to be looking at the fact that so many of those cases we have managed to suppress transmission do seem to happen indoors. in that case v to
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duke was that a lot of conflicting messages. this is the ongoing messages. this is the ongoing message is confusing and people are arguably ina message is confusing and people are arguably in a difficult position as to what they meant to do. absolutely. one of the stats in the story is that the r rate dropped by 396 story is that the r rate dropped by 3% but you have gatherings of ten. we've got the of six in place in many places. that makes that never seem even more arbitrary. the bill says in the front page is the study does say the name floor of these measures is of course she would ensure compliance. i guess the question i have about this particular study is, are these. so low because were not confined or should not be confined because the stats really love ? should not be confined because the stats really love? and it isn't working. as always it leaves us with a difficult situation. the eye is focusing on tests and trays. up to 90,000 cases a day and again it's
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this idea that test and trays can't cope. this will be testing system that we were its just not to be. they didn't just that we were its just not to be. they didn'tjust promise it they said that we had a world leading testing trace system. it'll all the evidence said this is not the case. the biggest mistake the government made this year it was you decide to give up on testing and tracing when case is about a certain back in march. and they took ages to get started building up his chest and trays capacity. they haven't done it. well of course, they've got it from a standing and all those involved are doing in some ways a phenomenaljob. which is not reaching for members. the problem is even though the test and trace system is getting better, the numbers are growing so much faster that the gap between their performance and what's even actually gets bigger. they simply can't keep up. it's the key argument for some
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sort of circuit break or what their colour and wears a fire break lockdown of some sort. it might at least i hope it is, it would allow for members dropped enough that test and trays could then keep up. if you're doing 90,000 cases they i don't think there's any test entry system in the world that could keep up. the guardian also focusing on testing trace. saying it is adding new though. that person ain't no system new though. that person ain't no syste m ca n new though. that person ain't no system can keep up. we need something that will at least cover the basics. the guardian focusing on the basics. the guardian focusing on the success rate at a new low once againa the success rate at a new low once again a message difficult to stomach. the problem is twofold and it's not contacting enough people to the testing trace system. now at an all—time low ofjust under 60% being contacted. also the tests are being processed far enough to be effective. the problem with this is twofold. boris johnson effective. the problem with this is twofold. borisjohnson is to say
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effective. the problem with this is twofold. boris johnson is to say we are on target to hit his aim of 500,000 test by the end of the month. i think these are about 380 at the moment. if you can't process them quickly enough and contact people who have been in touch with a positive test case in time and it's all completely pointless. polly is absolutely right to point out the gap that vallance was keen to introduce today with the testing trace system for not catching up quickly enough with the number of cases rising. we knew this was coming. there's been talk of a winter peak all year. really i feel like the system should've caught up with that. we knew it was coming. polly, what do you reckon? winter is coming, we don't we just coming polly, what do you reckon? winter is coming, we don't wejust coming in polly, what do you reckon? winter is coming, we don't we just coming in a way absolutely. i developed the test trace way absolutely. i developed the test tra ce syste m way absolutely. i developed the test trace system to be able to keep up. by trace system to be able to keep up. by going with the impersonal, national system for the vast majority of testing trace and government made a strategic error.
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they thought they could just establish an entirely new baby that would have this and personal connection to people. those being tea m connection to people. those being team to tell you something as dramatic as stay home for two weeks. instead of actually investing and expanding local public health teams. obviously on a much smaller scale but existing functional teams i think we would've had much better success. there is no contest and tracing screens to argue the most complex cases they are seeing more success with that i think you have to shift approach. this idea that there are some places that are doing much more localized. i think one places bristol i was speaking to someone there that they really are going down and they are putting in the leg work. is that the answer, do you reckon? i think it is. the leg work. is that the answer, do you reckon? ithink it is. polly is right, that should've been the solution from the beginning. instead the government chose to centralise everything out of whitehall. we
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stated this week and the previous weeks with regional leaders and their left out of talks or they felt very much like they are being overlooked when it comes to aid packages and job support schemes. they feel the same way about test and trays. if this had been in place is the event much more localised from the beginning i think would be ina very from the beginning i think would be in a very different place now. perhaps now is the time to do it. that places a system is down the pan. admitting he's frustrating they are working to improve it, she's been saying that for weeks and weeks and weeks. so perhaps she gives them power to local authorities is the way forward on it. that's the test to size. the guardian looking at riches to that, the chancellor another unveiling of help towards in particular the focus on the second tier which had implications for businesses at the end of the financial support that you had in the second tier. that has been in
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theory, three eyes and forgot. yes, richie sumac has come back once again to what he said it was a final plan for business support and extended it. —— two. it's a bit like testing trace. that they sue, they set a target for themselves how much effort do we need to get to the challenge we face are? in terms of the amount of business support, a autotest were going to do, without noticing that the situation is getting much worse. i think the treasury particularly earlier in the airdid a treasury particularly earlier in the air did a phenomenaljob of going absolutely to set out almost comprehensive economic support package. and they are reallyjust to burying their heads in the sand and hoping that we aren't going to get that winter spike. i think that they have to do instead of underestimating how that is going to be bait teachings to start overestimating how bad it's going to
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getan overestimating how bad it's going to get an provided support package for that situation. best for the job you wa nt that situation. best for the job you want type of approach to business support. so that they aren't always having to catch up and then change the scheme every two weeks. in terms of the optimism that we were getting on top of this fire is that potentially the government was a little bit too optimistic when it was introducing the initial package of measures and alex had to absolutely revise given fat case numbers are just going hi. maybe it was a touch optimistic but it's notable to point out first of all the winter support scheme that was in place obviously didn't even go into the winter. they had no choice but to dedicate more taxpayer support your business. especially fiow we are support your business. especially now we are in a tier 2 and three scheme. i think there is merit 38 million britons living in those chair places now. and their businesses and employees need support. i don't know of recent
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changes have been that optimistic. they are still having to create new schemes of people clearly so desperately need help. the question is really how sustainable it all it is. how far these clues. go? is really how sustainable it all it is. how farthese clues. go? i is really how sustainable it all it is. how far these clues. go? i was going to introduce new ones every few months into a vaccine is found? with a vaccine as some people are suggesting is it actually cure and we have to live to live with us is not how far into these schemes get extended, health optimistic does the government needs to be? there will all be a reckoning this will have to be paid back. i surprise more adventures on the waiting a red flag over that or perhaps they are not behind closed doors.|j over that or perhaps they are not behind closed doors. i don't have a copy so you're going to have to talk me through it. furlough fraud. £2 billion lost to criminals in the furlough cash fraud. this is something that has been touched upon. i'm not seeing, the figure seems incredibly boring. just talk us seems incredibly boring. just talk us through what the papers have
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