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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former fleet street editor, eve pollard and the director of thejohn smith centre at glasgow university & former scottish labour leader, kezia dugdale. the daily mail says borisjohnson is facing the first signs of revolt from the his so—called "‘red wall‘ mps — over covid laws in the north. the guardian reports that tory mps in northern england say the covid—19 pandemic has exposed what they describe as "the deep structural and systemic disadvantage faced by their communities". and the ‘i' says more than 50 of those conservative mps are demanding a "‘clear road map‘ for northern areas of england — that have been hardest hit by

increased coronavirus restrictions. the times is reporting older people have a strong immune response to oxford university's vaccine, raising hopes that it will protect all sectors of society. while — the daily telegraph says immunity to covid—19 may only last a matter of a months, according to research that could hinder the roll—out of a successful vaccine. it also carries a picture of tv presenter victoria derbyshire — who says she will ignore coronavirus restrictions to celebrate christmas with her family. the daily mirror shows a picture of the prime minister dishing up hot food, as he refuses to change policy on free holiday meals for disadvantaged children. while the metro focuses on a number of britons — trying to ensure no child will go hungry during the current school holidays — as borisjohnson refuses to extend the free school meals programme for children in england.

and the financial times reports ant group is set to raise more than $34 billion in its initial public offering, putting the chinese payments group on track to top saudi aramco as the world's biggest market listing. so let's begin. lovely to have you back. nice to see you sharply into focus, eve. we had a few problems with the line earlier. great to have you to, kezia. kick us off at the daily mail, eve. you have to feel some sympathy for boris. there we were, last december, and he was saying red car, no it is blue car and he persuaded all those people who were pro—brexit and perhaps pro having a change of government or staying with the tories and usually to go and

vote for him. and then it covid—19 happen. there was a lot of talk at the time about leveling up. and i think that most of the country thought that was a pretty fair thing to do because there is a sense that the southeast, we know it seems to be the richest part of the country. but of course, it takes extraordinary that the north seem to have been hit worse by covid—i9 than any other part of the country. that isa any other part of the country. that is a great sort of simplification but they do and i think i am fascinated to know why. is it because it is cold out there? is it denser? one of the things about sweden, sweden seems to have done so well but then the sweden by comparison to this country is so much emptier come if you have more people come falls or have they been more nazi and gone out i had a good time, who knows why? —— more nazi. there is no doubt that a great part

of the north is having a really rough time and a tier 2 or tier 3. —— more naughty. and they want to say what is going to be the test. how do we ever get out of this? and also what will we do about a pathway to leveling up when we do emerge out of this pandemic which we all say we will. next year, mid of next year sometime. and then they are complaining quite loudly and saying we have to give all of the people who lent us their votes a reason for sticking with us. just very quickly to pick up on the point you set about sweden, so far there has been no evidence they are moving towards the herd immunity. that they were hoping for. just to make sure that we put that clearly. but kezia, pick up we put that clearly. but kezia, pick up on the front page if you will come the redwall story. yes. this redwall revolt as it lit up between 50 and 55 conservative members of parliament who are referring to him

to themselves as the in r6, the northern research group come as you remember back to the days when brexit dominated our headlines, it was the erg come of the european research group was because the prime minister so many problems. so this new equivalent is led by an college eric berry, who is considered to be a close friend of borisjohnson eric berry, who is considered to be a close friend of boris johnson and end this letter they have written to the prime minister tonight, three key points that are making, two of them stand out is very important. the first one is that this second wave of coronavirus is impacting on people in the north of england disproportionately to a clear route out of the local lockdown they are facing in the north and secondly, this commitment to leveling up which he mentioned, it is a real fear amongst the mps that when it all comes to the end of the pandemic, we start to total the cost of the public investment and work out who will pay for all of the money we have invested. it might be their commitment to leveling up that is abandoned so these mps are saying whatever you do come help us get out

local lockdown and after all of this that it tested, don't make us pay the price for the reduced amount of public money we have to spend. to show viewers the front page of the daily times has front—page lockdown risk crippling the north. i don't know what you think of this but there is this call of the road map out of lockdown. does anybody from any country have a road have we seen evidence of anything? any country have a road have we seen evidence of anything ?|i any country have a road have we seen evidence of anything? i don't think we have seen evidence of that. and of course, i mean, we are all presuming the government want people to have a decent christmas, so the r rate was going, and of course hospitals were filling up, and so they decided perhaps rather than close down the whole country and tidily ajax the economy, they would do it in different groups but it seems to be it is worse in the north. maybe it is cold out there. covid as we know apparently likes

the cold. and it travels more in the cold. we still don't understand this virus at all. but they do seem to be having an unfair situation and also, what actually is a thing that will make it to say we have done this for three weeks, we can see the hour is coming down and we can see there are less cases going to hospital but at the moment we haven't seen that. and thatis the moment we haven't seen that. and that is the thing that must worry them, how long will this go on was white what is been the feeling. and scotland? white what is been the feeling. and scotland ? if we're white what is been the feeling. and scotland? if we're talking about the north, less than have the proper north. any indication about a road map out of this? of course in scotland we have a different tier syste m scotland we have a different tier system announced by the first minister at the tail end relax said they come into effect until the 2nd of november, still some deliberation ongoing care about which local authority area was set in each measure looks according to a leak from the scottish government today that north lane only my clinics or

will be in tier four in the scottish syste m will be in tier four in the scottish system has five tears to tier four. —— north a gary. there is a sense that these lockdown restrictions are going to be with us for some time to come and if we can't spell out to people across the country when they will and come at least what we can do to try and support businesses as much as possible is to provide as much as possible is to provide as much clarity as possible, so the steer systems where the steer systems weather in scotland nor in england are designed to very clearly set out what you can expect in your local area given this tiered status. we will stay with the times. i don't know if you follow the store yesterday of the oil tanker, the andromeda, the times has a story on the front page. eve. this will be a film shortly. it is quite terrifying. you have a taker that has come from labels in nigeria, and obviously i think it is seven still wet. —— if you have a tanker from

labels in nigeria. and when they realised they were going to be dropped off into britain so they could to vanish into the countryside, they got rather testy with i think it was possibly mostly a great crew and they surrounded the control room of the oil tanker in the solar and they been arrested for suspecting hijacking offences but of course it is the sort of thing that little boys will love because they are helicopters, made a, a very clever ca pta i n are helicopters, made a, a very clever captain didn't keep them in the solar and didn't land but managed to keep his crusade. they're all in one room i gather. —— keep his crusade. it is quite terrifying to be kidnapped as aware and see, it must be quite scary. i'm sure the declaration of people trying to get them. it came to an end very quickly. i think it was 7—9 minutes

it took course to military got involved. yes. absolutely extraordinary. the paper reports that this stowaways were identified not long after the ship left the legos, but it wasn't until i got off the coast of the isle of wight that the coast of the isle of wight that the dispatch was put out to try and arrest the individuals involved in as you describe, they dropped the helicopter and the operation was selected around nine minutes. it succeeded very successfully. seven people arrested aboard a ship 22 crew. as you describe, it may be a hollywood movie any yet. crew. as you describe, it may be a hollywood movie any yetlj crew. as you describe, it may be a hollywood movie any yet. i will stay with you to take us to the front of the daily mirror. the question is can't you feed a nation hungry, kids too? he asked. y and x ordinary take i think from the daily mirror. here is borisjohnson who hasn't been seen for a few days, visiting a hospital to talk about the quality of hospital food. a lot of people thought that if the government were going to u—turn on this, they should have been extending free school

meals that into the winter holidays, this would be the moment to do it. quite why then when he decides to stick to its guns and not shift and not u—turn on the free school meals did you decide to do a photo co—op and him being in serving hot food to and him being in serving hot food to a patient that wouldn't be available to children across england during the winter months. he is being sticking to his guns and when i give way to marcus rashford. —— and will not give way. what do you think? what was he a u—turn, a repeat of what was taught in the summer or not? the pressure is on from off—side from within the party as well. it is possible. -- don from all sides. he would now say very clearly that there will be free school meals i would think in the christmas holidays. i cannot believe this, but your line has let us again. i am sorry.

this, but your line has let us again. iam sorry. -- let this, but your line has let us again. i am sorry. -- let us down again. i am sorry. -- let us down again. we nearly got there. let's redial up. we will not give up yet. we have an amazing team here on the comp side. back to kezia. —— on the communication side. do you think he will bow to the pressure of the u—turn? will bow to the pressure of the u-turn? it is unlikely i think that he will u—turn because the moment to do that was of course the first time that borisjohnson was presented to the tv cameras, now he is on record saying he will stick to his guns. he will not u—turn. he believes that the government have given all the money they need to give to local authorities to deliver free school meals across england. in the local authorities argue however that money is long since been spent to him it wasn't designed to last 12 weeks and they have drag it out over a series of months. when borisjohnson has that argument, he says free school meals isn't the answer to lifting children out of poverty. what we needis children out of poverty. what we need is to invest more money into the welfare system, that is why a

few months ago the increase universal credit to the volume of £20 a week but that comes to an end sooi'i. £20 a week but that comes to an end soon. there was a temporary increase. to that particular excuse will not last the prime minister very long. but as i say, the time for him to u—turn it was when he was in front of the cameras today in the fa ct in front of the cameras today in the fact he chose not to do that i think make it increasingly difficult for them to change his mind. it is interesting. many people have said that it interesting. many people have said thatitis interesting. many people have said that it is notjust about christmas. some people say the second wave could take us into two marks. the cost think in that. but as marcus rashford himself has said, this is just a sticking plaster. there are deeper issues here to be examined. absolutely. the issue around kind of the hunger of children across the country and the inequality they face are systemic. they have been there for a long time but the simple fact that covid—19 exasperates all these existing inequalities suggest that the government really should step up and put that plaster on if the

plaster is what is required. the reality however as though there is such a small amount of money the prime minister seems to be very stubborn and wants to stick to his guns community think the amount of money in the government have invested in schemes like furlough or eat out to help out which was a subsidy scheme for many people with disposable income to eat in restaurants night after night, the cost of providing free school meals isa cost of providing free school meals is a fraction really know what those schemes cost, so why the belligerence and so determined to stick to his guns and notjust campaign from a very public figure? let's go to the front page of the other express. this is going back to covid—19. —— daily express. the headline is... eve, you are back! front page of the daily express. i'm sorry. catching up was the one paper idid sorry. catching up was the one paper i did have a chance to have a look at. i'm hoping it is saying the vaccine will be great and work and

it will be a saviour. let's give you a feel for it. oxford jack shows strong immune response in over 55, and the young. we hear so many lines about a possible vaccine. do you know where we are with it?|j about a possible vaccine. do you know where we are with it? i would love to know. apparently, i think i'm right, the oxford vaccine is you have to have two jabs, and a vaccine has to be stored somewhere very cold. so i don't know whether you are cold. so i don't know whether you a re clear after cold. so i don't know whether you are clear after one jab or if you have to wait, i think the second jab you have to have after 28 days. that is what i'm discovering on the highways and byways. it would be brilliant if we had done one in our country, we wanted to go around the world, but how great is that we have an early. mbe, i can't imagine why it would be important for me for people over 55 to feel very safe

with this vaccine but it would be a real relief, and just up and go back to some sort of normality, when enough people have had the vaccine, and to say people's lives would be fantastic. the new normal is fine but i think we had enough of it. everybody is happy for a vaccine i think from the government, to the public, but it is a case of managing expectations. but it makes to make you paint a very confused picture when we are still in the developmental stage. when we are still in the developmentalstage. even when we are still in the developmental stage. even the scientists on there. yes. they described a global race to find a vaccine elsewhere across the paper and you have the trial from the university of college london vaccine wasit is getting close to being available there is a way now in my only last three months and required to be injected at least twice a year. in the express, the vaccine that oxford are working on. the early signs are it provides a strong

immune response in the words we are looking for and positively the side effects seem to be quite small for those people over 55 years old and another reason to be cheerful but it felt like every other day we hear a positive story about a vaccine only for the next days paper to knock our hopes back a little bit, it is clear the and we all know this that if we live with the restrictions and whatever is here or whatever level until that vaccine is in place and we also know from the papers they getting that vaccine to the people who need it most, the vulnerable people and those working in the nhs is no mean feat and will require the efforts of both the nhs staff and the army to make sure we can roll it out as quickly as possible. eve, if ican take out as quickly as possible. eve, if i can take it to the daily telegraph. we lost you when we discuss this but your thoughts on the picture story and the bbc‘s victoria derbyshire, it will break the role of sex that christmas was did you think when you saw this? —— the rule of six. we have been taking to ourfamilies.

the rule of six. we have been taking to our families. that we have the rule of six. we have been taking to ourfamilies. that we have been talking to our families. to ourfamilies. that we have been talking to ourfamilies. at hoping that we will be allowed to have a christmas. we've all planned that make i think a lot of us have simplified christmas and said that we arejust going simplified christmas and said that we are just going to try and stick to the family bubble and we are going to be as careful as we can and all people sitting at one end of the table and teenagers at another. all of that thing. but i'm not saying i would go against the advice of the government because we have been for months of behaving as the scientists oi’ months of behaving as the scientists or as the sage wants us to behave. it would be tragic if people had a lovely christmas and died because of it. but number when we are getting very much better at treating this disease. although still sadly people are dying. and of course old and vulnerable people will have to be protected. if there is any way that

we could have a normal christmas, we are alldreaming about we could have a normal christmas, we are all dreaming about it. we as a family have been talking about it. and i should imagine victoria derbyshire has talked about it and saidi derbyshire has talked about it and said i don't care what they do, we are going to be together for christmas. at the end of the year when a lot of people have not seen their grandchildren, a lot of people haven't seen their parents, allow all sorts of things have been planned and have to be cancelled. i don't know what they will do about the new year, not sure about that before christmas but please, let the 25th of december be ours. the full details will be in the radio time. who should conduct the interview with. we will leave it there. —— who she conducted it. we got there and the end. thank you, kezia. apologies. that's it for the papers this hour. thank you eve pollard and kezia dugdale, and we are watching events closely

in the us. the us senate floor here, the senator mitch mcconnell, republican of the kentucky speaking at the moment, the reason he is speaking is thatjudge amy coney barrett is expected to be sworn in. there is a vote to be held but it is potentially going to be sitting and gaining her seat of the supreme court. this is a lifetime position, stay with us on bbc news for this. goodbye. sport next. good evening, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is your latest sports news. tottenham are up to fifth place in the premier league with a 1—0 win at burnley, who remain without a victory this season. burnley had a goal ruled out for offside, and had later had james tarkowski's header cleared off the line by harry kane. kane was then involved in the spurs goal flicking the ball into the path of son heung—min

who reacted quickly. burnley are third from bottom with just one point from their opening five matches. in the evening's other game, brighton and west brom drew one all. brighton went ahead after a real mix up in the west brom defence. branislav ivanovic‘s attempted cleara nace hitting jake livermore and going in, but west brom drew level in the second half with new signing karlan grant scoring his first goal for the club. newcastle united owner mike ashley has called on the premier league to review its arrangements around broadcasting matches on pay per view, and says charging £111.95 per match is "unacceptable." with games continuing to be played behind closed doors and supporters not allowed back into stadiums a number of matches are being shown via pay per view. ashley says the premier league should immediately act, and look at cutting the price to £11.95 per game, while a fan boycott of the matches has raised over £300,000 for charity.

the manchester united and france midfielder, paul pogba, says he'll take legal action against the publishers of 100% fake news. there were reports that he was going to quit the international team, because of comments made by the french president emmanuel macron about islam. the world cup winner, who's muslim, wrote ‘i am appalled, angry, shocked and frustrated some ‘media' sources use me to make total fake headlines in the sensible subject of french current events and adding the french national team and my religion to the pot. the 27—year—old who has 72 caps for france, said that he is ‘against any, and all forms of terror and violence and saying ‘unfortunately, some press people don't act responsibly when writing the news. england have named their 36 man squad for saturdays six nations match against italy and the autumn nations cup that follows, wasps uncapped duo jack willis and jacob umaga have been included. the six nations match in rome will be england's first test for seven months,

after the weekend's game against the barabarians was cancelled. a big blow to england preparations, but the head coach eddiejones says they took it in their stride, just as they did when extreme weather affected their world cup this time last year. i quicklyjust went up to my room and worked out a plan b. i didn't get involved in the emotion of what happened. did a plan b, then got our logistics manager, and charlotte, and our captain, owen, up. we quickly had a plan in place about an hour after the postponement of the game — or cancellation of the game, should i say. and we were onto the next thing, mate. we're pretty good at these things. you know, we had the same situation with the typhoon injapan. so we moved on. this time it was just a bit of a different typhoon. wales will play their autumn nations cup matches, including the match against england next month, away from

the principality stadium in cardiff. the venue is being used as a coronavirus field hospital. they'll play at scarlets home ground in llanelli. challenge cup winners leeds came from behind to beat castleford, in super league by 28 points to 24. meanwhile, the champions st helens have missed out on winning an 11th successive match they were beaten 12—10 by salford. salford had to come from a io—nil defecit with krisnan inu crashing over late on to end their three game losing streak. sir bradley wiggins says he hopes tayo gegan hart gets a tilt at the tour de france next year — after winning the giro d'italia, becoming only the fifth and youngest british winner of a grand tour. the 25 year old's role in the ineos grenadiers team was initially to help the leader geraint thomas, but he crashed early in the race. he is part of this new generation of young guys that are coming through, and they are racing more aggressively, they are racing more openly, and a bit of flair and a bit of panache.

and so that has held him in really good stead. and the way he has managed himself through the entire race, it sort of became, "i might be able to do this. "and i think he just kept going day by day and he did not get ahead of himself, put pressure on himself. he rode beautifully, he really did. sheffield fighter kell brook will challenge for the wbo welterweight title against the unbeaten terence crawford in just under three weeks. brook couldn't persuade his regular trainer, dominic ingle to travel to his base in spain because of coronavirus, so he's found a local trainer on instagram. brook has been working with carlos formento ahead of his fight with crawford, who's won all 36 of his fights. i've never worked with him previous, like i said, dominic is my trainer number one. basically when i knew that dominic couldn't be out and be working with me i message him on instagram and i basically say, let's work together. i've watched you, i like your style, i like what you do. and the first day i knew.

i just knew that we gelled unbelievable. it's not, basic access its passion and that's everything i need in this fight. people write me off. this is going to be so emotional. just getting that win and proving them all wrong. and just being there with the fans and people that do believe. know that i can do it. i'll go on and go down as a living legend. this is what i was born to do. and that's all the sport for now. hello there. pretty powerfuljet stream will be racing across the atlantic for much this week,. that will bring what and when the weather at times. some sunshine around turning milder later in the week across the south. this deep

blow will remain out in open waters but was in the frontal system our way so today starts where and when he across western areas commercially bit bright across the east but eventually the rain and cloud will reach the easton area through the course of the afternoon but it will stay dry across the far northeast and it brightens up across the west and it brightens up across the west and southwest but if you have your showers and it will remain quite windy here. top temperature 11! degrees, chilly in the north and east. it stays blustery, a lot of showers pushing into northern and western areas, some of them will be heavy, dry ice across eastern areas and the temperature from five to around eight celsius. wednesday, sunshine or showers, another frontal system when an windy weather on thursday, it turns milder in the south.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lukwesa burak. the us senate is voting on whether to confirm amy coney barratt — she is expected to become the next supreme courtjustice. —— amy coney barrett. tracking the trump wall — we report from arizona — on the role immigration is playing in the presidential campaign. a call for europe to step up its battle against coronavirus — as some hospitals in belgium ask infected staff without symptoms to carry on working. and — why patches of hidden water could boost plans to build a permanent base on the moon.