Skip to main content

tv   The Papers  BBC News  November 2, 2020 11:30pm-12:01am GMT

11:30 pm
a manhunt is under way in the austrian capital vienna after gunmen began shooting in the city centre. police said several suspects armed with rifles launched the assault in six different locations, near the central synagogue. the austrian chancellor, sebastian kurz, called it a repulsive terrorist attack. one person is reported to have been killed and hospitals are treating 15 patients for bullet wounds. one shooter has been arrested and another shot dead by police. joe biden has told supporters that america has had enough of the chaos of the trump presidency. speaking at a rally in ohio on the last day of campaigning, he said, "we are done with the anger and hate." for his part, speaking in north carolina, president trump dismissed his poor poll ratings as fake. he added, "we're gonna win anyway." a record 95 million people have already voted.
11:31 pm
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner and also caroline wheeler, deputy political editor at the sunday times. tomorrow's front pages, and we start with the daily telegraph. entire cities will be given weekly covid testing, starting this week in liverpool, as part of new efforts to track and stop the spread of the virus. the guardian says up to half a million people in liverpool are due to be tested, and the paper also understands that the self—isolation period for those who test positive for coronavirus, and their contacts, could be cut from the current 14—day period to seven days as early as this week. the i reports results in the pilot scheme in liverpool can be provided within an hour without a lab and testing will be made available through home kits and in locations across the city. the metro says the prime minister
11:32 pm
has defended test and trace boss dido harding, despite contact tracing falling to a record low, and rejected calls to sack the head of his vaccine task force, kate bingham, after she was accused of revealing confidential information to us financiers. the financial times reports that borisjohnson has tried to quell anger over his handling of the pandemic by insisting that a new national lockdown in england would not herald a winter of open—ended closures, claiming that the virus could be beaten "by the spring". and the times carries a picture of the presidential candidate joe biden and says president trump is warning that any delay in declaring the election result tomorrow would "put the country in danger", as cities were braced for unrest as americans go to the polls. let us begin. we had been here to talk about test and trace, to talk about the us presidential election, but of course in the last few hours, we have been covering this major
11:33 pm
breaking story which is still unfolding in vienna, shootings in multiple locations, more than a dozen people injured. i don't have a ha rd dozen people injured. i don't have a hard copy of the times newspaper, caroline wheeler, but i understand the front page reflect this. clearly the front page reflect this. clearly the paper does want to reflect this, caroline. yeah, exactly, and you have to feel some pity for newspapers which have a very hard and fast deadline, particularly when there is a rolling news story like this which is obviously going to move this which is obviously going to m ove very this which is obviously going to move very quickly. the times has reported at least two people have died in the terrorist attack, which has been confirmed by the austrian government this evening. i think other alleys have only mentioned that one fatality is so far been recorded, but obviously it is quite a confusing picture, and is moving quite quickly given that there are multiple locations where indeed gunmen are supposedly supposed to have attacked and there is mention within this copy that there's
11:34 pm
potentially hostagetaking as well during this incident, so you can see that different news outlets are picking up on different aspects of this attack. and obviously, because it is so fast—moving, it is quite difficult to ascertain at this stage exactly what is going on other than to say that the government itself has said that they are treating it asa has said that they are treating it as a terrorist related incident. has said that they are treating it as a terrorist related incidentm might be one of those stories that changes through the evening. john kampfner, you have written about terror attacks and europe extensively. your thoughts on this? another situation where focus had been firmly on france, the terror attacks, the beheading, awful beheading of the teacher in paris, and outside the church in nice,
11:35 pm
escalating tensions, president emmanuel macron being uncompromising in his language, some saying it is inflammatory, other saying it as good a leader stands for freedom of expression for secular values, for whatever you like, european enlightening values, but it definitely seems to have stirred up a new bout. and it is awful to predict, but this may well not be the last, and who knows which european city might be had next? but, yes, as caroline says, we will see what the fatality total will be by the morning because it is still in evolving situation. john, you've written just now why the germans do it better. i am wondering whether
11:36 pm
you could do an analysis of austria. ido you could do an analysis of austria. i do not think there is any sort of scoresheet or anything on how governments, how countries, deal with terror attacks. it is a pretty universal police, paramilitary type approach, and all countries are equally vulnerable. austria and vienna had been spared for quite some time, the last attacks being in the early 80s, and germany itself has had several terror attacks in christmas markets and elsewhere, so asi christmas markets and elsewhere, so as i say, i think this is a pan—european, a global problem, because terror attacks take place everywhere, because terror attacks take place everywhere , across because terror attacks take place everywhere, across asia and everywhere, across asia and everywhere else. but certainly there will be a sense, we have he seen
11:37 pm
from other european leaders, whenever this kind of thing takes place, there is a sort of closing m, place, there is a sort of closing in, there is a sort of sense of solidarity of cross europe. thanks for the moment. caroline, solidarity of cross europe. thanks forthe moment. caroline, moving solidarity of cross europe. thanks for the moment. caroline, moving on to britain, we have about 48 hours left until britain enters that second lockdown? we are told the way out, according to the front page of the telegraph, is mass testing. do you believe that? it is not something we have not heard before. if you look back at some of those front pages several months ago, you will see a similar sentiment echoed, andi will see a similar sentiment echoed, and i think the former prime minister tony blair indeed was one of the first people to suggest that the country really needed a mass testing programme, when pretty much everybody would be tested on an almost daily basis if we were going to have any opportunity to beat this virus. and i think one of the interesting things about lawyers seeing this story reappear today is that we have had several days now of
11:38 pm
briefings from that first friday briefing, which went into saturday morning's papers, suggesting we were going to go into that second lockdown, followed by the press conference on saturday which led into the sunday papers, yesterday's story about the suggestion is to be a never—ending lockdown, the government is trying desperately to shape a narrative now that there is indeed a way out. i think boris johnson referred to this being a potential source of optimism, that we would not be consistently opening and closing the economy in order to try and suppress the virus, and of course what is being suggested here todayis course what is being suggested here today is that the city of liverpool will be tested on a weekly basis, so everybody in that city would be tested on a weekly basis. the point of that being that so many people area of that being that so many people are a symptom —— without symptoms, spreading the
11:39 pm
virus unknowingly to others, and experts suggest if you know you've got the coronavirus and you self—isolate for that period of time, you can hold the virus by about a half of its current reproduction rate, so that is what they are suggesting, but we know that the testing has not been exactly straightforward in this country. we have struggled to reach capacity and if this is going to be the forerunner to boris johnson's moonshot strategy which we have heard so much about, this hundred billion pounds strategy that is supposed to test up to 10 million people a day, it will be interesting to see how successful the government will be in that. one of the rules when i do the press review is there is always one paper which gives an optimistic headline, regardless of where that optimism happens, and we have done that now, the telegraph, so we can go have done that now, the telegraph, so we can go to the yorkshire post, which gets rid of optimism and its
11:40 pm
headline— johnson accused of a failed strategy over virus. does he need to worry about his right flank? just before, on that, caroline and i... expressing skepticism, let's put it mildly. the idea that you suddenly announce this drum roll, brand—new testing set of procedures thatis brand—new testing set of procedures that is going to transform everything, just so happens to be on the day would you have been caught completely exposed in a u—turn, whether it is right or not, and i think it is right, into a second lockdown, it is a classic case of displacement news management, try to get people to look on the bright side. and every step of the way since march, this government has over promised and under delivered, everything is always drum roll,
11:41 pm
world beating, we were to smash it this time, and what happens is that whatever new initiative is either quietly abandoned, reversed, altered or whatever. and whether it is track and trace or testing. and that is what, finally, the chickens coming home to roost with voters, that is not a question of a railing around the government, it is in the cold light of day, with so many people suffering, you look and you are right to be able tojudge a government by competence and performance and in comparison to the performance and in comparison to the performance of other governments. and that is why the yorkshire post headline is important and it is useful, because it is saying, it quotes various conservative mps reflecting the use of their voters, particularly in the north, where they have felt they had the thin edge of the wedge. the going into
11:42 pm
tier} edge of the wedge. the going into tier3when it edge of the wedge. the going into tier 3 when it was all briefly localised. as soon as things hit bad in london, they immediately changed the rule and gave everybody what they wanted, 80%, so there is i think a real growing sense notjust ofanger think a real growing sense notjust of anger but of realisation of incompetence. going to skip across the atlantic because in case you've forgotten, i don't think anybody has, us election. joe biden, i cannot read what the picture says, briefing book. caroline wheelerfrom the sunday times, are you in your paper afraid for us democracy?” think tomorrow is good to be an incredibly interesting day in terms of how us polls go, because we've already seen a sort of proxy war between the two candidates, joe biden and donald trump, about the
11:43 pm
very heart of how this elections would be declared. the main reason behind it is that there's been so many postal votes this time around because of the pandemic which is sweeping the globe, and more than 90 million people devoted with those postal ballots, and there is real concern that, in particular, the trump site will potentially use that to declare the result as being fraudulent, because of the moment, we can see the poser showing joe biden leading by about eight points, lots of those swing states being wrapped up by him, and there real concerns that if there is no hard and fast victory declared by one candidate, or one declares victory prematurely, it could lead to civil u nrest prematurely, it could lead to civil unrest and we know there are any shops and retail units and businesses and homes being boarded up businesses and homes being boarded up in new york and washington, in the very real prospect that there
11:44 pm
will be some civil unrest in the wa ke will be some civil unrest in the wake of this result tomorrow. but of course we don't also know how long it is going to for some of those states to declare, it sometimes can ta ke states to declare, it sometimes can take several days, we've seen that in the past, but... of course, caroline, iam in the past, but... of course, caroline, i am just go to that point withjohn caroline, i am just go to that point with john kampfner. if caroline, i am just go to that point withjohn kampfner. if you see, john, andi withjohn kampfner. if you see, john, and i do not know if you're good to be following the election last night, donald trump say, it is clear i won, and their votes left to count, what happens? it is funny because, when there is an election ora because, when there is an election or a referendum, because, when there is an election ora referendum, and i've because, when there is an election or a referendum, and i've covered enough of both, there are normally only two options. and tomorrow there are three options, with some indications of poles narrowing, and some of the swing states, donald trump pulls it out of the bag even
11:45 pm
if he doesn't get the popular vote and he wins. the posters are given that about a 10% chance at the moment, but 10% is still 10% and it can happen. the other is thatjoe biden wins big and donald trump has i'io biden wins big and donald trump has no choice, even with the early... if one or two swing states that the biden camp had not believed they could really get a turn for him, it will be incredibly hard, even for donald trump, to try to say two doesn't actually make for. but if it is all for grabs, we are in tinpot dictatorship country, when one person is actually losing but your simile refuses to go, and then all bets are off. you did only say there are two options. do you memory what al gore said about elections 20 yea rs al gore said about elections 20 years ago? you win some, you lose some, and then there is this third
11:46 pm
calibre. but see if we can get him on! we are going to stay in america. johnny depp, the libel action. we will not dwell too much on the libel action, that is a legal ruling, but just looking forward, the times says hollywood film studios were told not to offer roles tojohnny depp. caroline, you're the deputy political editor of the sunday times. if you are a casting director in hollywood, what would you do?” think with the hashtag me to movement over the globe, there has been... questionable behaviour, this isa been... questionable behaviour, this is a sort of straightforward issue that we are looking at, but i think what is interesting here is that johnny depp's role, who has been an internal be successful actor injk rowling's series of films fantastic
11:47 pm
beasts, and whether or not she would still stand by the actor, given the devastating findings of the court againstjohnny depp today, and i think, genuinely, there has been movement against supporting those actors who have been involved or embroiled in scandal, so it will be interesting to see how this affects his career moving forward. he said he is going to appeal the court case... and we respect that. john, i suppose in these positions, it is a lwa ys suppose in these positions, it is always interesting to think what is the standard here. if the standard is past criminal behaviour, pass appalling behaviour, that would limit quitea appalling behaviour, that would limit quite a lot of the artists of the last 50—100 years. limit quite a lot of the artists of the last 50-100 years. it is interesting, this one. johnny depp himself, illegal terms, interesting, this one. johnny depp himself, illegalterms, was interesting, this one. johnny depp himself, illegal terms, was not on trial. -- in himself, illegal terms, was not on trial. —— in legalterms. he had
11:48 pm
sued the sun newspaper for what he, his legal team, contended was libel, and he lost. this actually is a libel case, rather than a criminal trial against him. now whether proceedings would take place against him, that's for the courts to decide. if you decided not to go after the sun for the stories that he wrote about him, what position would he be in now? because he has not actually been put on trial. our final story starts with a hollywood film, if you look on the daily star, on the front page. there is what i thought wasn't steve mcqueen. it turns out not to be steve mcqueen, it is dominic cummings, and the headline the great escape. caroline wheeler, are you staying put? sadly, yes! iam
11:49 pm
wheeler, are you staying put? sadly, yes! i am not actually sure where we can go there that is in lockdown really again, and most of europe seems to have reentered lockdown and we still face the situation where, if we do leave the country, most of the places you would want to visit, you have to quarantine when you get there and when you get back, so i'm not quite sure how many of the spirits who seem to have so much under times to do that. lockdown means under times to do that. lockdown m ea ns lots under times to do that. lockdown means lots of people will not be able to work, but i find it quite astonishing theirfirst able to work, but i find it quite astonishing their first thought would be to book a holiday, particularly given what we know, which is the severe economic effects. caroline, thanks. briefly, john, are you escaping? no, i am not, i john, are you escaping? no, i am not, lam john, are you escaping? no, i am not, i am staying put in the middle of london, which can be one of the quietest places in lockdown because nobody is here. there is a serious point, which is wealthy people with second homes, both in lockdown one and two, they have lagged it to their nice abodes any countryside with their fancy gardens and very
11:50 pm
good broadband and continued working there, and one of the things about this virus has been to accentuate the economic divide. john kampfner, caroline wheeler, thank you both for that paper review. i will see you in a bit. and that is it for the papers tonight. my thanks to bothjohn and caroline. it is goodbye for now. hi there, good evening. i'm chetan pathak with your sports news. leicester city are within a point of the leaders liverpool tonight, after moving up to second in the premier league with a 4—1 win at leeds united. the visitors got off to the perfect start. this poor back pass letting jamie vardy in, and he set up harvey barnes, who finished the move to give leicester the lead afterjust three minutes. they doubled their lead before leeds got one back, stuart dallas' cross finding its way
11:51 pm
into the back of the net. but jamie vardy put the result beyond any doubt with a quarter of an hour to go, before a late penalty from youri tielemans — his second goal of the night — made it 4—1 at full time. and fulham have theirfirst league win after beating west brom 2—0, bobby decordova—reid heading them ahead midway through the first half. but the standout moment — have a look at this — from ola aina, with an absolute rocket from outside the box. it is going to be well worth another look. some first premier league goal for him as fulham out of the bottom three with that win. i see a group here that... the most important thing for me, like anything in life, is, first of all, putting your hand up to a mistake or being brave enough to understand, "ok, we're not good enough in these situations and we need to get better." and if you adopt that attitude and you've got that attitude amongst the team, you've got a chance of
11:52 pm
getting better and improving, and i see that every day. again, tonight, there will be elements we do need to improve. we've got a result and it's brilliant, but if we want to keep moving forward as a team and want to keep getting better, it's them things we're going to have to keep moving with. the former chair of the dcms select committee, damian collins, and five other mps, together with the former fa chair lord triesman, have written to the culture secretary, oliver dowden, asking for outdoor youth sports to be allowed to continue despite the start of another four—week national lockdown from thursday. they've also said elite sports should include under—18s training in elite development centres. their letter says that... and it's a view being echoed by ali oliver of the youth sports trust.
11:53 pm
probably the biggest issue for the grassroots side is what happens to community sport in the long run. and to lose some of these grassroots clubs, supported by volunteers that are really struggling now, will leave us with a legacy of a generation who are inactive and unable, then, to find their way into sport as a healthy habit for life. i imagine at the moment, you are campaigning and lobbying the government hard to ensure that physical education is prioritised for children and young people. yeah, we're working closely with the government — and particularly the department for education, the department for culture, media and sport — to find the very best way to get those messages out. and our big ask is that it's talked about and it's amplified in messaging to school leaders, both empowering them and enabling them, and making them feel that is the right thing to do
11:54 pm
to keep children active, rather than, because of safety concerns and issues of transmission, that they should not be engaging children in sport and physical activity. john watson there with the questions. so there's been plenty of support for the exemption of youth and non—elite sport from the upcoming lockdown, but some in the medical profession are being more guarded with their assessment. if you could bottle the health benefits of exercise, you would have no pill more powerful than that. exercise is fantastic on so many levels, and we all love it. but the problem is that along with it goes all of the overhead of contact with your friends, contact on the bus to get to the match, contact in the sporting venue, contact among the fans who come to see people play or to watch a motor racing event or horse racing, for example. all of these things are chains of transmission. they're opportunities for the virus to spread. and it's just unfortunate that you have to do, in order to gain control of it, interrupt that chain of transmission, and that means
11:55 pm
often bringing down the very reason we like to do sport — to get together to watch sport, or as competitors, to see how good we are against the opposition. next, toronto wolfpack won't be allowed back into rugby league's super league next season. clubs voted against their return by eight votes to four, with one abstention. toronto, who climbed from league one into the top tier within just three seasons of starting up, resigned from the 2020 competition injuly after former owner david argyle withdrew, saying he could no longer fund the club. there was one match in the super league this aftenoon. salford red devils are up to eighth in the table after coming from behind to beat catalans dragons 42—24. salford's match against castleford tigers next monday has been called off after more covid cases in the castleford camp. their match against leeds rhinos on friday's also off after four more players tested positive. the match scheduled for last friday against huddersfield was also cancelled, after 13 castleford players were ruled out
11:56 pm
with coronavirus. they'll have two more rounds of testing this week. leinster extended their remarkable run of pro 14 wins to 23 with a 32—19 victory over glasgow. the bonus point win moves leinster ahead of ulster to the top of conference a. they ran in four tries, including this effort from scott penny in the first half. earlier, ulster maintained their unbeaten start to the season with an 11—7 victory over cardiff at rodney parade. michael lowry scored their only try and john cooney added two penalties. elsewhere, zebre beat ospreys 23—17. and that is all the sport. more reaction to all those stories over on the bbc sport website. but for me and the team, that's all
11:57 pm
for now. good night. hello. high pressure ahead on the way for a few days to settle our weather down from wednesday, but in the day ahead, still some opportunities to get wet from either this area of rain pushing east across southern england, parts of the midlands and east anglia in the morning, or patchy rain and hill snow to start the day in scotland. by the afternoon, though, it's mostly sunshine and showers. a greater chance for the showers in the west, moving through quite quickly on the wind. these are average speeds, still gusting around 30 mph or so, feeling chilly in that breeze despite some sunshine around any of those showers. and a few overnight and into wednesday morning, pushing south across scotland into northern england, most other places will be dry and clear. and as the wind eases further south in england, into parts of wales, the first frost of the season is on the way for some, and then on wednesday, plenty of sunshine to start the day. and while most of us will have a fine day, a bit more cloud for northern ireland and scotland,
11:58 pm
a bit of rain heading in to scotland late in the day. most are dry on wednesday.
11:59 pm
12:00 am
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm james reynolds manhunt in vienna — armed suspects sought after a terror attack in the city centre. at least one person is known to have been killed and fifteen injured during assaults in six different locations. on the eve of the us presidential election — joe biden and donald trump make a final push for votes. and — an extraordinary story of survival — the three—year—old girl pulled from the rubble days after the earthquake in turkey. one person has been killed and several more

46 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on