this is bbc world news, the headlines. with a week to go before the us presidential election donald trump has accused his opponents of misleading americans about the pandemic in order to discredit him. he accuse the media of exaggerating the impact of coronavirus. joe biden has made a scathing attack on donald trump's handling of the pandemic. he said the president had failed the people by refusing to endorse social distancing or encourage people to wear masks. scientists say levels of protective antibodies in people drop quite rapidly after covid—19 infection. research by imperial couege infection. research by imperial college london suggest immunity could only last a few months and maiming people could get reinfected. about 30 police officers have been injured infine about 30 police officers have been injured in fine protests in philadelphia after the fatal shooting by police of a black man.

how about, welcome to our book ahead to what the papers will be bringing us to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow with me are the former pensions minister ros altman and the writer and broadcaster mihir bose. first of all let's take a look at tomorrow's front pages of starting with the telegraph which assess downing street is working on the assumption the second wave of coronavirus will be more deadly than the first. the ft headlines hsbc and santander, two of your present largest banks, declaring the worse of the economic damage from coronavirus is behind them. the eye leads with a straight we have been covering tonight that pressure is growing on boris johnson covering tonight that pressure is growing on borisjohnson to show how leisure rock downs can be easy. the cause for national lockdown are growing as the uk death toll from cova i9 exceeds 60,000 was at the

times, the government's adviser saying there is a moral obligation to stop disadvantaged children going hungry. the male leads with the two adults and two children who died when their boat carried them in the uk capsize in rough waters. —— the daily mail. so, let us begin as you can see ros altman and repertory standing by for supper but start with the front page of the david tow graph and worth mejust with the front page of the david tow graph and worth me just explain the graphic it's either because it is quite startling, the headline reading simply that the second wave forecast to be more deadly than the first. and it has a graph there in front of the image you can see on the left—hand side of high peak which was the first wave and then you see that red line which is a factor second wave but overall containing a larger number of deaths was a “— containing a larger number of deaths was a —— which is a flatter line. mihirwe start was a —— which is a flatter line. mihir we start with you, what else

does it say? the daily telegraph says this is an internal analysis that has spent resented to the prime minister by sage saying we should have death for a much longer time at a lower level than the spring but it will go on much longer. it could go oi'i will go on much longer. it could go on even beyond christmas and within a few weeks, you remember the death of what today was 367, it could reach 500. and what is basically neededis reach 500. and what is basically needed is a proper strategy to deal with that. remember a few weeks ago, sage said we should have a two week circuit breaker which the government did not accept with boris johnson saying we have tier three programme, tier programme, tier 0ne, tier two, and tier three and clearly these projections are being made to persuade the government go in for a much stricter strategy to contain the problem. and the government excepting that or not is a debatable

proposition. ros what do you make of the calls for a stronger stricter lockdown? i understand the calls and this is not an easy decision. nobody really knows because we haven't dealt with this disease before but i have to ask what the strategy is for getting out of this? if you just lockdown, we have tried that but actually the virus came back and we are back in a position where we are talking about locking down again. with all of the associated side effects that also has on people's health... macro and i will let you carry on but to jump health... macro and i will let you carry on but tojump in on health... macro and i will let you carry on but to jump in on that point because the daily telegraph draws up one point as happened earlier that hospitals are now beginning to cancel non—covid treatment to cope with the increasing burden. that is right. and in mid—yorkshire they have closed their operating theatres. so

there is a real crisis in non—covid medicine at the moment. a lot of people are missing cancer diagnosis. by people are missing cancer diagnosis. by the time they get seen, the cancer has spread much more than it otherwise might have done. and our normal course of events. so the government has to weigh each factor against the other. this isn'tjust about covid. this is about overall national health and then there is the mental well—being and the side effect on mental health as well as physical health of the lockdown itself. and you still have to say covid won't have gone away if you ease the lockdown and you can't keep lockdown forever. so, we need a functioning society, a functioning economy as well but also we need to look after the health of the nation outside covid. the article also draws out the fact that the uk is farfrom alone in

draws out the fact that the uk is far from alone in this. draws out the fact that the uk is farfrom alone in this. europe, numbers going up there. chancellor angela merkel talking about bringing in greater restrictions, emmanuel macron do to give an address the nation this evening which will be tomorrow evening, so we will see what kind of an announcement is made there. mihir its get your thoughts on the same theme the front page of the guardian, calls for national lockdown grow as uk death toll exceeds 60,000. i should say of courts parts of the uk, wales for example is in a temporary full lockdown. what do you make for these because of a national lockdown in england? well that this would be a change in strategy. we spoke earlier that sage had said a two week circuit breaker, the idea that has developed now is, and chris would answer patrick bounce made this point in their press conferences re ce ntly point in their press conferences recently that we have seen the regional areas like in the north,

the incident of infections and deaths are much higher and the strategy that has developed is that we should have regional lockdowns of necessary, as you say there is one in wales. now it would seem that this report, this article is suggesting we should go back to the national lockdown that we had at the beginning in march and went on for some months. and the guardian's figure of 60,000 is a higher figure which also includes other people who may not exactly have died of covid but who had... covid mentioned on the death certificate, it is really important to draw that out, mihir, thank you for pointing that out. the headline genocide and you because the other figures are 45,000, 45,365 and you think where did those come from? but this illustrates if you like we are dealing with a virus we have never dealt with before. we are dealing with a situation we have never dealt with before and we are

in the hands of scientists who themselves are trying to explore what is happening and how we may deal with that. it is a very uncertain sort of almost out this huxley novel sort of situation. —— all this huxley. we are going into a situation where we are not going into a situation we know. very briefly calls for the national lockdown, you are not one of those people calling for a national lockdown are you? no, i received is not an easy decision and i understand the calls for the national lockdown, you are not one of those people calling for a national lockdown are you? no, ibc is not an easy decision and i understand the cause but i would say the prime ministers right to resist this and if you look at the actual evidence, people are not dying in the same numbers as before. and of course we are coming into the period of the year with sadly a lot more people die normally of flu anyway. and we have a vaccine for flu but still tens of thousands of people can die in any one year. so, if you

lockdown, you may make other things worse especially other illnesses which don't get treated. and you still want have got rid of covid. let's move now to the front page of the eye which talks about not going into lockdowns but how to get out of them which is a growing concern for not only many people but politicians. "show us the coronavirus exit strategy" is the headline there. pressure grows in the prime minister to explain how regional lockdowns can be eased. mihir. yes, and this is a cross—party mihir. yes, and this is a cross— party mps have mihir. yes, and this is a cross—party mps have launched the covid secure uk campaign to try to get from the government what exactly is their long—term strategy, how will be get out of this and deal with it, they have also pointed out that the impact and ros was talking about it, the impact on young people asa about it, the impact on young people as a result of the restrictions of lockdown and so on has meant that under employment levels for under 40s, one in five young people who

we re 40s, one in five young people who were furloughed have lost their jobs. they are looking for a strategy and that has really been the fundamental problem ever since the fundamental problem ever since the prime minister gave that declaration saying i must instruct the british people to stay at home. but we don't know quite what the strategy is was at the early strategy is was at the early strategy was to squash the sombrero but the sombrero is still there, still flashing up. some people are still flashing up. some people are still having to put up with the sombrero and therefore, what is the exact strategy? are we going to live with the virus present are we going to completely eliminated? where exactly? and we need a long—term plan, i know it is difficult but nevertheless the problem with this government has been that it has not set out what looks like a long—term plan of getting out of it. yeah, and pa rt plan of getting out of it. yeah, and part of the problem of course is that scientists themselves are split now. many scientists are starting to say we know had to deal with this virus a lot better. we can get people better, they are not alljust coming into hospital and dying in

the same proportions as before. and therefore may be we need to adjust given the new evidence the way in which we treat the covid situation and be less dramatic about it and give people hope for the future, give people hope for the future, give people hope for the future, give people confidence rather than having a strategy of let us wait for a vaccine it if it never appears we will wait forever. we believe the issue of coronavirus there for a moment. let's go to the front page of the daily mail. a pretty difficult story, the difficult details, mihir talk us through them, tragedy in the english channel. yes, these are illegal migrants trying to get to britain from france in a boat and the boat capsized leading to the drowning of two young children into adults, a very heartbreaking story and of course this has been... there have been other deaths in trying to cross the channel and this

illustrates the problem of people trying to come to this country illegally from france and what the government can do to try and convince the french government that there can be a better solution to this migrant crisis than having people die like this in the channel. to have this happen with children dying and someone is so horrific. and yet the solution, long—term solution that can stop it, is not very evident. ros on that solution the focus there from the daily mail is this idea of tackling, targeting the "ruthless criminal gangs" who prey on bondable people by facilitating these dangerous journeys. do you think that is at the root of it? definitely. i think that the criminal gangs and often lead people to believe that they can quite easily get over, they will just have to sit on a boat and they will get to the other side and they

will get to the other side and they will be welcomed and the british forces won't turn them away. but actually of course, these gains collect huge sums of money or the correct people's life savings or any jewellery that they have or anything like that and people go with their children and their families thinking that it children and their families thinking thatitis children and their families thinking that it is a relatively easy journey. —— they collect people. meanwhile they risked their lives, some know they are risking it and others are not aware. quite and the need to be cooperation between the uk and the french authorities to crack down on these criminal gangs and we want more of that cooperation. right now it is a bit tricky because of the brexit situation. but once that's out of the way, hopefully during the negotiations, there will be negotiations, there will be negotiations about security cooperation, crime and so on. let's move to the front page of the times now, a different story, the headline

"food, serves some, £1 billion plan two p:m.." this doesn't make much sense but luckily we have mihir to explain this to us. yes, the food is r has come up with this plan, a £12 billion plan to cope with this problem that we have about how to provide food for children when the school is not there because the school is not there because the school meal programme does not operate when schools are not there and schools have been close. —— the food tsar. he suggested a four tier plan to the prime minister which would involve holiday activity and food programme, about 500 million a year, 100 million for healthy food vouchers, and a extension to the dash extension to the free school meals programme and he feels that we need to tackle it on a much bigger scale than what has happened. the back onto the story is of course

marcus rashford the footballer for manchester united and england who forced the government to make a u—turn earlier this year about providing children with food when schools were not open. and since then, that policy has been reversed and it has given the impression, mps have the impression created that taking food from the place of the children. it almost on second charles dickens horror novel! 0k, ros, what you make at this idea? they talk about this idea of morally obliged, the government is morally obliged, the government is morally obliged to feed pupils. you think this is the role of the government to do this? i think whether or not you agree, we are in the middle of an economic crisis as well as a health crisis. and it is really important that the government steps in andi important that the government steps in and i think food tsar is right to say before the unemployment

situation gets worse, we have had protection from furloughs so far but more and more people are losing theirjobs now especially perhaps those with young children and their family. and marcus rashford has done a brilliantjob. family. and marcus rashford has done a brilliant job. unfortunately, family. and marcus rashford has done a brilliantjob. unfortunately, he has made a huge difference and the government has been put on the spot here. this is a footballer who has played brilliant political football if you like. and he set up a petition that has nearly1 million signatures already. he is doing a greatjob and the government is clearly going to have to respond, its own mps are saying "we are not co mforta ble its own mps are saying "we are not comfortable with the way this is going." soi comfortable with the way this is going." so i hope that this plan will be one way of moving forward. interestingly, marcus rashford's faces on the front of the yorkshire post and you can pick up on this mihir because the headline there is holiday clubs, one of those measures

it seems not enough to feed children. yes, the holiday clubs we re children. yes, the holiday clubs were set up in the summer to feed the children. in fact the yorkshire post story also quotes the food tsar who sets the plan just did not work and would not work. sorry, and therefore it needs to be revised and it is evident the fact that we needed a footballer to change government policy shows a lack of policy and it also shows that the benefits system which was meant to benefits system which was meant to be changed and transformed a couple of years ago clearly hasn't worked properly. with much fanfare, the cameron government brought in a big change to the benefit system. questions must be raised to if we had that benefit system, why is it not working out? why are these measures required? why is a footballer plane for manchester united, not even from tottenham hotspur, having to change policy? we

are ina hotspur, having to change policy? we are in a national emergency, i don't think anyone would have foreseen that but i do agree that we need to respond to that emergency. 0bviously universal credited has been increased by £20 per week and i hope that will actually remain in place. but the holiday clubs on their own aren't enough. —— universal credit has been increased without the government has been talking to giving money to councils as well but clearly, we need to do something urgently before we get through to the winter holidays while children are still at school now, we want to make sure we plan that when they are on holiday and not able to attend school. let's go back to the front page of the times now. tv historian which is the photo there investigates royal palaces slavery links, mihir. this is of course if you like, the result of the black

lives matter movement, people are looking at history and the tv historian, lucy rosalie, the chief curator of the royal palaces and books after various palaces, the tower of london, the hampton court and so on and she is looking at the links with slavery. the links with slavery are that many of these palaces were built during the stuart dynasty, charles ii authorised the royal african company which was a key player in the slave trade. charles's brother was also involved in that, and what the historian would look at is whether what the links are and what needs to be done to indicate that these palaces were built from sleeve trade and money made from slavery which at the moment they don't do facet —— from

slave trade. it's a question of making the history proper and complete and not hiding something thatis complete and not hiding something that is going on at the moment. she has not quite in us what she is going to do and what the final solution is going to be but that is the way she is going. we only have 20 seconds but what you make of it? i think it is a great idea, we want to help people understand our history but we must not forget that we have abolished slavery hundreds of years ago. well over 100 years ago, a century. this is something we can be proud of that we pave the way for getting rid of slavery, and we have made great progress in our society more to do, further to go, but we have definitely made great progress in data something that we can demonstrate by showing the history and how we have moved on. ros and mihirthank history and how we have moved on. ros and mihir thank you so much both for you talking us through all of the various stories of the front pages of the newspapers, thank you.

so, that is set for samira thanks again to mihirand so, that is set for samira thanks again to mihir and ros, i am back at the top of the r with today's main stories. next now, it is the sport. —— with our main stories. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun at the bbc sport centre with your latest sports news. let's start with a busy evening in champions league. liverpool made it two wins out of two in europe this season with victory over danish side midtjylland at anfield. it took them until the second half though to make the breakthrough, diogojota with a close—range finish. and the points were secured, by mo salah. his injury time penalty giving liverpool a 2—0 win. they now top group d, after atalanta and ajax drew 2—2. and manchester city continued their winning start to the competition — with a comprehensive 3—0 win away at marseille. raheem sterling with the third for pep guardiola's side — who are three points clear in group

c. barcelona playjuventus in the champions league tomorrow, but ahead of that game, the barca presidentjosep bartomeu has resigned after six years in the role ahead of an expected vote of "no confidence" next month. it follows increasing fan pressure, and a public fall—out with lionel messi — who handed in a transfer request in august. his resignation comes three days after barca's 3—1 home defeat to real in el clasico. it was inevitable. i think that the situation was reaching a point where there was no space for any kind of inventions. in fact, i would say that the fc barcelona board wanted to avoid this whole situation. this should take place next week and, because the situation wasn't good, not only for covid—19 reasons, but also for all the kind of sports decisions that they took and financial situation, the financials are critical at this moment. so that was the end and there

will be elections next year. northern ireland boosted their women's euro 2022 qualifying hopes, with a 1—0 win against belarus in minsk — despite having goalkeeperjackie burns sent off in the first half. that victory closed the gap on group rivals wales, who are looking to qualify for their first major tournament. but theirfate is no longer in their own hands after they lost 1—0 norway — frida maanum with the only goal of the game and that secured their spot at the finals. meanwhile, scotland suffered their first dropped points of their campaign in group e — they were beaten 1—0 by finland missing out on the chance to go top. eveliina summanen scoring for the hosts not long after the break. the fa has launched its football leadership diversity code as they look to tackle racial imbalance in the game. it won't be mandatory for clubs, but 40 have already signed up. they have been set diversity targets of 15% in recruitment of new executive positions and 25%

in coaching positions. i think we have come up with a code that is really fundamentally, it does what it says on the tin, it holds football to account, it makes clubs think, makes clubs accountable, it is good for governance. ijust feel it is a step in the right direction. it is a real solid foundation. i've seen the last 30 years, and i have seen there has been a lot of well—intentioned, positive action programmes, but none of them i think holds football to account in the way this leadership diversity does by way of the targets and the accountability. southampton are one of the clubs that haven't signed up for it, they say that they have already achieved the premier league's advanced equality standard. the premier league say that they will embed the principles of the fa code, within its ongoing work. celtic manager neil lennon has criticised the media "hysteria" following sunday's 3—3 draw

against aberdeen and says he'll only concentrate on what he can control. celtic are without a win in their last three matches and are six points behind leaders rangers, with a game in hand. there is a narrative that everybody wants to see a change, that's fine. that's just the way of the world. the poison comes from the social media, or it's picked up by you guys and put in your reports, your articles, or your newspapers — whatever. and it's out there for people to click bait. so i can't control that. what i can control is what goes on in the training ground. teams that lose in the first round of the fa cup next month, will receive a share of prize money to lessen the financial impact of ties being played behind closed doors. losing teams previously got no prize money but will now receive just over £5,500 with £16,000 going to the winners. world champion sprinter christian coleman has been banned from athletics for two years

for anti—doping violations. the american won the men's100 metres at last year's world championships in doha, and has been banned for three "whereabouts failures". coleman has 30 days to appeal at the court of arbitration for sport. if you are an elite athlete, you get all these wonderful opportunities, to travel around the world, competing. you have a few simple things to do, one hour a day, they need to know where you are at. and this is how we combat doping. and it's important. and athletics integrity, if they didn't do that, they would be compromised. it's not an easy thing to take your biggest sprinter in the world and say the guy is banned for two years for doing something that was quite frankly, avoidable. do i think he will appeal? yes, i think he will. great britain's hockey teams returned to competitive action after almost nine months away. it didn't exactly go to plan. britain's women came back from behind to level 1—1 against the netherlands,

but they then lost 3—1 in the penalty shoot—out, they are third bottom in the pro league standings. and the men were also beaten by holland. they conceded a goaljust seconds before the half—time interval and couldn't find an equaliser. 1—0 the final score. and that's all the sport for now. hello there. hello there, it's going to remain very unsettled for the rest of this week thanks to areas of low pressure which will bring spells of rain and gales at times. today also very unsettled. we've got sunshine and blustery showers, these heavy and thundery across western and southern areas. all tied in with this area of low pressure which actually contains the remnants of what was hurricane epsilon. some extremely strong winds on its southern flank racing across the north atlantic and that is generating some very big waves today across some western coastlines. you could even see some disruption to the ferry services for western scotland at times.

and if you are walking out near the coastline in the west, just take extra care. now, lots of showers will be affecting many western portions of the uk. some merging together to produce longer spells of rain for parts of wales, central and southern england though some brighter echoes indicating some hail and thunder mixed into some of the heaviest of the showers. the best chance of seeing the lengthier sunny spells will be across the eastern parts of england but it will be a cooler day today than we what had yesterday, 10—13 celsius. the showers continue on for a while during wednesday night but then they begin to fade away. the skies clear and it turns a bit chilly in the far north and east but further west, temperatures begin to rise with the next weather system arriving, bringing more wet and windy weather. you can see it here on the pressure chart racing up from the south west, lots of isobars on the chart. so, it's going to turn very windy once again. so, wet for southern and western areas to start thursday, dry and bright in the north. the rain will eventually reach much of scotland, all but the northern isles.

behind it, it will tend to turn a little bit drier, perhaps a little bit brighter but it will be windy. you will notice milder air getting in the mid—teens celsius here. 11 degrees across the north of scotland. thursday night will remain very windy and mild, and it will stay wet across northern and western areas. in fact, rainfall totals really starting to mount up across parts of western scotland, northern and western england, and wales where we could see some minor flooding by the end of friday. it starts to brighten up for scotland and northern ireland into the afternoon, and we could see some brighter spells across the south—east. and given that very mild air mass, we could see 18 or 19 degrees across the south and east. as we head on into the weekend, more low—pressure systems racing off the atlantic, some very deep ones here which could bring a spell of gales or even severe gales in places.

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