hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are lance price, political commentator and former labour party head of communications and lynn davidson, political commentator and adviser to the conservative party. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. the international edition of the new york times says race for the white house is still too close to call. the straits times says democratic candidate joe biden is strengthening his lead over donald trump. the japan times sastoe biden's disciplined approach to winning back northern industrial states — rather than getting distracted by democratic dreams of turning texasblue appears to be paying off. the international edition of the financial times relfects this is bbc news with the latest on donald trump calling for vote headlines for viewers in the uk counting to be halted in several swing states as the us waited and around the world. for results from a handful the race for the white house of battlegrounds that will decide is coming down to the final the presidential election. tally of ballots in some key battleground states. the metro sastoe biden has georgia, arizona, nevada and pennsylvania are among

appealed for ‘calm and patience‘, those still to declare. the gulf news reports on how europe's economy, joe biden insists that battered by new restrictions, every vote will be given after a surge in covid—19 cases, the respect it deserves. faces a sluggish recovery next year, each ballot must be counted. that leaves it open to rising we have no doubt that company failures and when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be long—term unemployment. declared the winners. president trump is due to speak some of the front pages. let's start with in about half an hour — his campaign has launched legal bids the new york times. to stop the count in several states. there is no prizes for guessing what they are leading with. the focus is this slow count bush and biden closer. it's not exactly, given that there was so much mail and votes coming through, it was never going to bea coming through, it was never going to be a quick process. we got to keep stressing that this isn't strange, nothing we are going on this is quite normal. my goodness, the whole world is on tenterhooks. absolutely. they are and i was just

reading that north carolina, one of the keep battleground states that we know of and they are going to still be accepting and counting postal ballots by november 12. i saw actually someone had put a meme online about are you watching tonight the finale of the united states 7 tonight the finale of the united states? because this is going on for so states? because this is going on for so long. and we are still going to have to wait for it. as you said, with that metro front page, i think they get the front page of the night. biding his time. it looks like what we have isjoe biden closing in on victory. he has far more routes available to him then donald trump has now to win. but it's certainly been an absolutely nail—biting 48 hours. it's certainly been an absolutely nail-biting 48 hours. let's have a look at the metro they had a really good luck went last night this morning as well. make america wait again. this time it's biden his time. joe biden has spoken within the past hour and a half or so.

again just calling the past hour and a half or so. againjust calling for the past hour and a half or so. again just calling for patients. and letting the process run through. yes, ina letting the process run through. yes, in a wayjoe biden tonight was yes, in a wayjoe biden tonight was reflecting the difference that he wants to strike between himself and donald trump in exactly the same way as he did throughout the campaign. whereas joe as he did throughout the campaign. whereasjoe biden as he did throughout the campaign. whereas joe biden is as he did throughout the campaign. whereasjoe biden is calm and measured when his rhetoric seeks to possible bring people together rather than drive them apart. and while looking in from the outside particular from abroad, it may look as if american democracy is going through some sort of spasm of weird behaviour actually, it's not. through some sort of spasm of weird behaviouractually, it's not. it's doing itsjob. and as in all of these states where we knew that there was a very large amount of voting going on ahead of time and by post that it was going to take a long time before we got the results. and that script is being played out. joe biden, very sensibly not

reacting, not responding to some of the craziness coming out of donald trumps twitter account. and just patiently biding his time, biding his time. because he's pretty sure he's going to be the next president. and the straight time also focusing on what's going on in the united states without biden closes in, trump files suits. as we wait, especially those male and votes being counted at the moment, the narrow gap between biden and trump. trump turns to lawyers. yes, he's wanting to stop those counting the votes. he wants to halt it straightaway. actually quite interesting lay earlier today when i looked on donald trumps twitter account, you can see it now several of the tweets have been stopped by twitter with their new policy that they have on looking at disinformation and fake news is donald trump himself would call it. yes, he's asking for his campaign

have already filed some lawsuits in several states already. we can expect more of that. there have been commentators talking about the kind of ongoing narrative for donald trump now. someone said earlier about donald trump giving a speech oi’ about donald trump giving a speech or talking like someone that was getting desperate. looking like he was losing. i think you probably also be looking ahead to the fact that he's got some 76 days still left in the white house regardless of what happens. the current president won't vacate the white house until january the president won't vacate the white house untiljanuary the 20th. i think we can expect to see quite a lot more drama unfold before then. the drama the times also focusing on this, the legal pursuits. there are an awful lot of different lawsuits, appeals being brought forward. pennsylvania, the state that if biden were to when it would push him over, to bring them up to 270 electoral votes. it's a legal

minefield. suddenly the lawyers will be, one for the war fleet and i could lawyers definitely. i'm not sure minefield is the right minefield to draw. i think it's more like a tarmac road with lots of tax thrown on it. those tax are very annoying and you have to be careful if you are trying to get on the road but they are not going to blow you up. it does seem that what donald trump at his team are trying to do are to undermine confidence in the process as it goes ahead to keep open the possibility of finding a way to the presidency. i don't think anyone is taking any of these lawsuits, i should say a huge number particularly seriously. none of them have a killer silver bullet which is going to change the way the election is going in the way it's moving to going out towardsjoe biden. yes, it

isa going out towardsjoe biden. yes, it is a legal minefield. we know what america's like. we know how they love to litigate and resort to the courts for that when they can't be certain that's what donald trump asked to do. —— can be certain. i don't think will make a difference in how this plays out.|j don't think will make a difference in how this plays out. i stand corrected. tarmac and tax are better. let's just leave the us election for the time being a look at the financial time which also has on its front page. the focus we are having a look at is what's been going on in the uk. the chancellor has extended the furlough scheme to march. not much help for those who desperately lost their jobs already. definitely something for those still working. yes, this is a great difficulty for the prime minister and the chancellor. he's been accused in the financial times tonight yet another government you on this. obviously, if you've lost

yourin on this. obviously, if you've lost your in the last few months, this is a scant consolation to you. at the chancellor has announced that the furlough scheme which pays 80% of salaries will now be extended to march. and that move has a price tag of some hundred and £50 billion. i think it by memory so slick correctly, that makes the total spent on something like 800, 890 £5 billion. he's also extended the benefit to the self employed who are of course early on, there was a lot of course early on, there was a lot of criticism because they weren't receiving the sport that some many needed. the outlook is pretty bleak. especially as the fact that from that think tank pauljohnson the respected head of think tank has been very critical of richie sumac and the chancellor saying it's been

and the chancellor saying it's been a waste spent of money for so i think he will also be receiving a lot of criticism from conservative backbenchers who want to know all where all this money is coming from. he is stuck between that position of trying to look after workers but yet where do you draw the line on how much money you're spending? always gets mentioned in the gulf news which is looking a little bit further afield also at the eu economy facing deep scars after a fresh wave of restriction. the whole of europe really suffering from the effects of coronavirus and this second wave, this resurgent of it. it looks across europe in the way so many leading economies are having to introduce similar schemes and one way or another to the furlough scheme that ritchie sumac has now extended in the united kingdom. also

economic growth. it does look as if to protect the euro zone as a whole it certainly going to do better than the british economy appears to be doing for supper we got the warning from the government of the bank of england here in the uk today that the british economy could be only up to ii% the british economy could be only up to 11% below where it was this time la st to 11% below where it was this time last year. that is a massive drop no one can't remember anything like it in recent history. one of the paper suggesting that the last time there was a drop as big as that was in 1709 when apparently there was a great frosted, you learn a lot when you're doing paper review. 1709, you don't remember? i'm struggling to. we are out of time for the moment but the next edition about a half—hour time we will have a little bit longer to go through the papers. for the time being, thank you so much. don't go away and we will see you very shortly.

hello there. we had some big temperature contrasts across the uk on thursday. in the south, temperatures got to a ten or 11 degrees in the sunshine, but across the north it was much warmer than that with highs of 18 degrees in durham and widely across northern scotland, 15 or 16 degrees. the reason we had those big contrasts in that temperatures comes about because of, in part, where the air came from. the start of the month, this cooler air in the south was sat across canada, whereas this much milder airfurther north was sat around the bahamas and that is partly why we had those high temperatures across northern areas, the fern effect also helped boost the temperaturse and bring that warm air down to the surface. looking at the weather picture overnight, those differences in air

masses lead to quite different weather overnight. mist and fog again for england and wales with those temperatures in the countryside dropping below freezing, so frost in places. scotland and northern ireland, it stays quite cloudy and relatively mild as well. so, for friday, further contrasts around. mist and fog across england and wales will tend to lift into low cloud. that could lingerfor a time before breaking with spells of sunshine coming through. the best of the sunshine really is we have through the afternoon. for scotland, probably quite cloudy and notice a much cooler day for aberdeen, 12 degrees here compared with the 16 we had on thursday afternoon. the weekend sees the wind switch more south or south easterly direction. we do have weather fronts on the chart moving across the uk and they will be bringing rain at times. so, on the weather menu for the weekend, it does tend to become cloudier through the weekend with some spells of rain, it will eventually turn milderfrom the south. that milder air would be moving in across parts of england and wales as we go through saturday,

so with that milder air will come more cloud and temperatures of 15 or 16 degrees through the afternoon with the threat of rain throughout the southwest of england. a cold and frosty start further north with some fog patches. after that frosty start in glasgow those temperatures will struggle with highs of seven celsius. for sunday, notice much more in the way of cloud widely across the uk and there will be some further outbreaks of rain, the rain heavier and probably more widespread as well. it will start to turn that bit milder. 11 degrees in glasgow and 15 or 16 in cardiff and london. 00:13:33,867 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 that's your weather.