the french prime minister says there's now more covid— top democrats in the us have refusing to recognisejoe biden as the last week's winner of the presidential election. hong kong's opposition have walked out of the legislature after four of its colleagues were expelled — britain says china has clearly breached its joint declaration. beijing has condemned the mass resignation describing it as a challenge to its authority. the french prime minister says there's now more covid— nineteen patients in hospitals than in april, with a new admission every 30 seconds. in the uk there's been a fifty per cent jump in cases in the previous twenty—four hour period amnesty international says it has evidence that schools and possibly civilians have been killed in what is called a massacre in ethiopia is to great region.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the chief business commentatorfor the independent, james moore and the comment & features editor at city am, rachel cunliffe. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. we've starting with. .. got we've starting with... got a developing story once again we've got a developing story once again tonight. let's bring you up—to—date with the papers we do have. according to the daily telegraph — dominic cummings is at "the beginning of the end" of his time in downing street — after he and a close ally lost a bitter power struggle. the guardian says conservative mps are warning borisjohnson has one final chance to overhaul a dysfunctional downing street operation, after bitter in—fighting

triggered the sudden departure of one of his closest aides. while the times predicts boris johnson is planning to reset his premiership after the resignation of his director of communications, by ending culture wars, promoting the green agenda and taking a less dogmatic approach to the union. the ‘i' says a significant minority of the population are now against inoculation — which could prevent uk from reaching herd immunity. the yorkshire post reports a warning that hull is facing a public health crisis, as the city's covid—19 infection rates rose sharply to become the second worst in england — just behind oldham. while the financial times says three of the world's top central bankers predicted the breakthrough on a coronavirus vaccine would lift the uncertainty weighing on the global economy, while calling for more short—term public support to bridge the gap to a recovery. according to the daily express — royal aides have reveealed that the queen has vowed to work on past her platinum jubilee and serve her country "for all of her life. and the daily mail

is one of a number of papers to carry pictures of the strictly pair on its front page — olympic boxer nicola adams and katya jones — who've been forced to exit the programme early after the dancer tested positive for covid. quick look through some of the papers. i've got a feeling if the breaking news story that we are bringing our views over the past few minutes is right, some of those papers are going to be a little bit out of date. rachel, we are hearing that dominic cummings will be stepping down by the end of the air. let's have a look at what the guardian is saying. the tory mps are warning the prime minister to get a grip on the chaos in number ten. as we been saying throughout the day there's been a lot of speculation over whether dominic cummings will step down, will he or onty? according to our editor laura kunz

where he spoke into her and he has confirmed that he will be stepping down by the end of 2020. certainly those tory mps getting what they wanted. sort of. from what lara has been reporting, it's the most dominic cummings resignation ever. rumours of my resignation are com pletely rumours of my resignation are completely false. i don't know why you believe them. by the way i'm going to go by the end of the air. i read that and thought, what? he claimed doors seem to be saying that he always planned to leave by the end of 2020. he's pointed to a blog post that he wrote at the beginning of the year. basically, his argument seems to be it's not about the file on downing street, i was always going to do this. stop asking me questions of, essentially. which is very dominic cummings way of

handling it. iwould very dominic cummings way of handling it. i would think it's probably a little bit more complicated than that. but certainly people in the tory party and friends who are not coming fans have seized on this as their moment to say, get rid of him. and reset your primary ship. reach across the aisle, talk to your party, talk to parliament. put forward a more positive vision of conservatism which we haven't really seen. also a reminder again in the guardian, dominic cummings said that he is not a conservative, he doesn't particularly like the conservative party anyway. that should also remind us of what kind ofan should also remind us of what kind of an individual he is. he's been running time but not downing street in the prime minister as a... even a tory. that is one way of putting it.

this is one of the most dominic cummings resignation, not resignation, i won't be here by the end of 2021. he points to his blog andi end of 2021. he points to his blog and ijust end of 2021. he points to his blog and i just had end of 2021. he points to his blog and ijust had a look at his blog. 0n the front page was from january where he was looking for hiring the data scientists and they sort of weirdos he was calling for. i am not update with his blog. apparently, he a lwa ys update with his blog. apparently, he always said that he was going to make himself largely redundant by the end of 2020. given everything else that has been happening, the timing of him saying this to our political editor, it all seems quite convenient, doesn't it? it is very convenient, doesn't it? it is very convenient, is in a? this is what's called public relations. use see when ceos go they say oh well i always planned to go at this time andl always planned to go at this time and i will serve my time out. but it is public relations. the wolves have

been at the door it now for some time now. the conservative party has just become so rested and so unhappy with the situation, so unhappy with the things our manager. you're getting these stories coming out of numberten getting these stories coming out of number ten spilling out all the time. and it's disrupting the government agenda. this story has come out right in the middle of the vaccine coming out. you have this route with the director going and the questions about cummings and it just completely obliterated to a large extent the good news of a vaccine for the conservative government. and they talk about how to deal with that. i think there will be a sense of release pulling back relief that finally he's going and there's teflon man who survived things that no other prime minister real aid seem to be able to get away with, trip up to durham, did it or

did not break the law at the time? when everybody else was absolutely lockdown. immense amount of political capital is gone into protecting this man. but i think finally, yeah, this is it. and there isa finally, yeah, this is it. and there is a bit of pr going on. a bit of very convenient timing. we didn't really know anything about that, did we? the papers all very much focusing on dominic cummings, the daily telegraph a look at the front page describing it as a look at the end. if this is as is, this is the beginning of certainly the end of 2020. he will not be in this particular role as the prime ministers chief advisor. but it's important because he's been such an influential figure. important because he's been such an influentialfigure. when important because he's been such an influential figure. when you important because he's been such an influentialfigure. when you look important because he's been such an influential figure. when you look at his participation and everything else, the way the uk has been

dealing with lockdown, with coronavirus, this is a man that is very much at the very heart of the british government. he has been. and i think that is partly what has caused downing street so many problems with the pandemic. is that dominic cummings strategy for leave and across his political career has been to start fights and push things through. and he's won often enough that he thinks that's a winning strategy. and it doesn't matter who you antagonize the important thing is you win. that doesn't really work. it works an election or referendum it doesn't really work when you are dealing with a new virus, when you have the government and civil service and the media and the health service and the opposition parties all needing to work together. you getting new information all the time. there needs to be a certain amount of flexibility. you need to be able to listen to each other. that doesn't work if you've got a control centre

at number ten that just work if you've got a control centre at number ten thatjust says no, we are doing what i think is right because we are the government and we won and that's what we have to do. i think some of the more more embarrassing u—turns for the government have been out of the result of that very, very inflexible, rigid mindset from the center. which is very much something thatis center. which is very much something that is associated with dominic cummings. generally zooming out, i think we should be careful about saying this is a chance for a reset and everything will magically sort itself out if he goes. your in trouble once all the communications become the story. i think there are a lot of people probably watching those who might know dominic cummings ordidn‘t those who might know dominic cummings or didn't particular care who leigh kane was was think is really worrying for the government that this internal fighting at number ten has become a front page news story for two days possibly three days in a row. when we've got a couple of other things we should be thinking about at the moment. it

doesn't really inspire confidence in the governments competence. you are absolutely right. uk daily covid cases reaching a record daily high of over 33,000. certainly something we need to be talking about. but the times again focusing on very much what is happening behind the door of number ten. and you talked about being careful about talking about a reset. this is very much the focus on what the times is looking at. this hope that the prime minister will reset, a softer touch they describe it as. they've got the picture of his fiancee who in theory is coming out as a power broker in number ten. carrie simon was director of communications for the conservative party. so she knows about this. she knows how to do this. and i think there is a desire really, if possible to bring boris johnson back to what he was when he

was london mayor. remember, what he did was convince what is essentially out did was convince what is essentially our labour city to vote for him twice. and he didn't do that by being this divisive figure, by pitting fights all the time. he was boris with a smile, he was a bit bumbling but he was charming and all that sort of stuff. he spends change into this much more divisive figure of much more aggressive stance you're seeing all the time. there is a desire for this reset. but whether that can actually happen, we will see. downing street is always been a snake pit whoever is there. there will always be factions, there will always be battle. i think there certainly is the desire for this to happen. the financialtimes certainly is the desire for this to happen. the financial times also a picture of dominic cummings and again, we are talking about how there is so much more to talk about but the papers and of we've been

seeing over the couple of days now have been looking at this. let's move onjust for a have been looking at this. let's move on just for a little bit. have been looking at this. let's move onjust for a little bit. the story that we are going to focus on now, i'm sure it will come back to the communications at downing street in the moment. this idea that the vaccine, we needed this news. we finally got this news regarding the pfizer vaccine and it's given the economy a boost. yes. you've got three central banks there the federally preserved and bank of england all striking a note of cautious optimism for what this vaccine can do for the economy, the global economy, for business confidence and they are all pointing out that there are pitfalls head and still things to be concerned about. but just having a still things to be concerned about. butjust having a plan, having a way out that businesses can plan towards individuals can plan towards, just

makes a huge difference. 0bviously, they are trying to come up with monetary policy and strategy to help keep the economy going. it obviously helps a lot if they can see what the end point is rather thanjust pumping more money into the economy indefinitely. now at least you could see the gold that they're working towards. the ft also, keeping the focus on ft, donald trump, he is not conceding. it feels like we've had democrats say he needs to face reality that republicans are also starting to vent their frustration. yes, they are inching ever so carefully, this is very difficult for the republicans because trump has such a passionate following in the republican party. i think there isa the republican party. i think there is a real fear among the republicans that the first one to break ranks, if you like, outside of the squad of

people like mitt romney have always been trump critics and are pretty well established. susan: in maine is another. but outside of these people they are very nervous of upsetting trumps base. but you've got this problem thatjoe trumps base. but you've got this problem that joe biden trumps base. but you've got this problem thatjoe biden is not getting security briefings, that puts america at risk. i don't think the republicans really want to be put in the position of being blamed for putting america's safety and security at risk. i think they are inching carefully towards saying look, don't you want to think about maybe sort of, and eventually it can have to happen. the fact is, joe biden has won the electoral college. there's been no evidence of electoral fraud and he's got more than five minutes votes, more than donald trump. we shall watch and wait. we're going to end with the daily express which has a bow from

her majesty the queen. we've heard about this extended bank holiday for thejubilee. about this extended bank holiday for the jubilee. not until two about this extended bank holiday for thejubilee. not until two years time. what has her majesty also said? she said that she plans to continue serving the country past thejubilee. continue serving the country past the jubilee. because continue serving the country past thejubilee. because the monarchy is a job for life. which it certainly is. although i think people would understand if a woman in her 805, is that right? wanted to take a bit of a backseat. but she has done the normal things over her careers as monarch. and certainly in the last nine months he's been a force of stability and calm. and con5i5tency. personally, i would give her a day. it's nice that we have a constant. 90 for eight years young. isn't that

amazing, brilliant, fa nta5tic. 90 for eight years young. isn't that amazing, brilliant, fanta5tic. it's that kind of, it's what you want to hear, is in a? rememberthe that kind of, it's what you want to hear, is in a? remember the message that she had for the nation when we we re that she had for the nation when we were in the depths of lockdown. what the queen provides in this situation and what we don't have a lot of it isa and what we don't have a lot of it is a bit of stability. i guess that's what people welcome to do this. 90 for is frankly —— 94. 94 is impressive. it really is quite impre55ive. let's end on that note. a positive note and rightly so a bit of stability on what is a difficult time for all of us. pleasure a5 alway5. thank you so much for being here during that breaking news coming from 10 downing street. thanks so much.

we are keeping our ion any more information coming from 10 downing street. he said that the government will distribute £2 billion to cancel. it's to fund grants to firms forced to close as a result of lockdown measures. saying it will benefit more than 600 premi5e5. speaking at the downing street pre55 conference that he said the government understood how people job5 government understood how people jobs and livelihoods were being affected. whilst the economy grew by 1596 affected. whilst the economy grew by 15% in the last quarter it slowed in september. it remains 8.2% below when we were inafury. we and government understand acutely the human impact this statistic represent5. it's job5, the human impact this statistic represent5. it'sjobs, livelihoods and families affected. so we will

continue for businesses as they recover. the government has provided unprecedented levels of support to busine55e5 over the past eight months. to date, that represents over £200 billion in support. this i5 over £200 billion in support. this is one of the most generous and comprehensive packages of financial support provided in the world. which the international monetary fund has praised. just this month, we have announced an extension of the self—employed grant scheme till march next year. an extension of the furlough scheme at 80% until the spring. cash grants of up to £3000 per month for businesses in england which are required to be closed due to this month's national restrictions. the5e to this month's national restrictions. these will benefit 600,000 bu5ine55 restrictions. these will benefit 600,000 business premises. i can confirm today that we will be distributing £2.2 billion to local authorities tomorrow to allow them to make these vital grant payment5 to make these vital grant payment5

to businesses which have been affected. all of these measures are designed to preserve job5 affected. all of these measures are designed to preserve jobs and affected. all of these measures are designed to pre5ervejob5 and help busine55e5 5tay designed to pre5ervejob5 and help busine55e5 stay afloat. today we have also announced that more than 19,000 jobs have been created so far through our kick—5ta rt 19,000 jobs have been created so far through our kick—start scheme. the5e job5 through our kick—start scheme. the5e jobs are spread across the country and ina jobs are spread across the country and in a variety of sectors. i know how hard this and in a variety of sectors. i know how hard thi5job and in a variety of sectors. i know how hard this job market is. particularly for young job—seekers hoping to enter the workplace for the first time. the kick—start scheme is a ray of hope for young people. i want to thank all the busine55e5 people. i want to thank all the businesses which have stepped up to participate in this scheme. i speak to businesses everyday and i can see that despite the tough times, they are determined to soldier through things. through 5heer hard work, innovation, resilience and invoking a real community spirit acro55 innovation, resilience and invoking a real community spirit across the united kingdom. for example, aberdeenshire has made hand

saniti5er to protect our front line staff. in belfast actual 3d has helped develop thousand5 staff. in belfast actual 3d has helped develop thousands of new ventilators. in summary castle i have adapted their manufacturing processes to produce 5neeze screens processes to produce 5neeze 5creen5 forgp processes to produce 5neeze 5creen5 for gp surgeries, pharmacies and ca re for gp surgeries, pharmacies and care homes. in caerphilly transcend packaging has transcended production line5 packaging has transcended production lines for ppe and i5 doubling their workforce in just four months. becau5e despite the government support and when it comes down to it it is you who are keeping the country going. alongside the busine55 secretary wa5 country going. alongside the busine55 secretary was the national medical director of nhs england. he 5aid despite the promising new5 medical director of nhs england. he 5aid despite the promising news that a vaccine is coming it is vital not to ignore the restrictions that are currently in place. this week we've had the extremely encouraging news concerning a potential covid vaccine. and in the nhs we are preparing to deliver that vaccine.

it might feel like the calvary is coming and we can't relax about the restrictions. but it's vital that we continue to do two things that will reduce the spread of the virus and help save lives. firstly, we can all personally limit transmission by washing hands, wearing masks and keeping an appropriate distance from each other. that is what the restrictions are designed to do. we know these measures work. so don't stop now. keep going because frankly, every time you wash your hands you keep your distance, you wear a mask you could be preventing passing the virus to a loved one, to a neighbour or to someone you work with. secondly of course, i'd urge everybody with symptoms to come forward to get tested. and to self—isolate when they come into contact with anyone who has tested positive. both these measures will slow the growth in infection that will inevitably lead to increased hospital admission and sadly,

increased death. there is hope on the horizon with a vaccine and of course that is welcome news. but the vaccine is not here yet. and it will not help us in the second wave if infections continue to rise. that's why it is vital that we all continue to follow all of the guidelines. by getting a vaccine so rapidly to this point as you've heard, is a major scientific achievement. i think it is unprecedented achievements and personally i applaud all those scientists, everybody who has been involved in the development and the continuing development of the many vaccines that are being developed. but today i like to end by specially thanking everybody who has taken pa rt thanking everybody who has taken part in the trials that have been ongoing. whether it's the recovery trial here in the uk which has helped the nhs show the world that dexamethasone is a successful treatment for covid or those who

have ta ken part treatment for covid or those who have taken part in the clinical vaccine trials for covid and indeed continue to do so. all of you who have done this have selflessly put yourselves forward for the greater good of all of us. and your actions i'm absolutely convinced will ultimately help save lives. lots more on the daily briefings on our website. let's bring you up—to—date with the weather. let's bring you up—to—date with the weather. hello there. the weather is going to stay un5ettled for the next few day5. 0ften wet and often windy as well. make the best of any 5un5hine when does come along. satellite picture shows an area of low pressure to the northwest of the uk with a squally band of rain pushing its way ea5twards. that rain will still be hanging around acro55 part5 of eastern england into friday morning. rain for a time and south england with the rain clearing. what follows is a spell of sunshine. whether brightening and improving it will 5tay blu5tery across the northwest with plenty of showers. that could be quite heavy with an odd rumble of

thunder. towards the southeast the wind should become wider. temperatures 10 degrees in aberdeen, 14 in london, 14 in london is mouth at this time of year. 14 in london, 14 in london is mouth it should be about 11 degrees for the stage of november. the weekend5 forecast low pressure dominates. you can see a tangle of weather front5 cro55ing the uk. they'll be bringing rain at times the rain will often be quite heavy. they'll also be strong winds for saturday and sunday. on saturday it looks like the strongest winds will be working through the irish sea for that wale5, we5tern areas of england could get du5t getting up to about 50 odd miles an hour. rain extending northwards and ea5twards. we will also see rain at times maybe be a few brighter spell5 acro55 eastern england but quite unreliable, really. temperatures as high a516 degrees to the southeast but perhaps not feeling quite that mild given the strength of the wind. we've got more 5trong wind to come on sunday. strongest wind5 working through the english channel. gu5ts here around

the south coast could reach 50 or 60 mph. rain cleared through the weather brightens, sunshine and showers although 5un5hine like their outbreak5 of rain across the northern areas. tho5e temperatures will start to feel fresher and cooler air will begin to edge its way into sunday afternoon. fre5her weather still with us on a tube monday for that monday aquieter today. high—pre55ure building across the uk free time. most of us will see sunshine, temperatures close to normal for this time of year but rain return5 to the northwest through monday afternoon. looking at the weather chart5 into tuesday into next week again perhaps not quite so bad a day for some 5un5hine across england and wale5. we probably see a band of rain extending into we5tern areas as we go to dayforce up i say probably because there is some uncertainty about how quickly this rain will arrive at the atlantic. and into the middle of next week the forecast becomes very unsettled. to understand why, we have to look at the jet stream. not even the uk but actually what's happening over the next 25 hours acro55

the pacific northwest. specifically the pacific northwest. the size of these troughs specifically the size of these troughs and bridges moving in. becau5e troughs and bridges moving in. because they are a can different computer simulation and these differences start off being quite 5mall differences start off being quite small but grow to be quite large differences by the time we get into the middle of next week acro55 differences by the time we get into the middle of next week across our pa rt the middle of next week across our part of the world. this play5 the middle of next week across our part of the world. this plays a significant factor and what the weather will be up to. for example, two main scenarios, one is that we 5ee high pressure building off the atlantic. thi5 5ee high pressure building off the atlantic. this would settle the weather down. however, this looks a le55 weather down. however, this looks a less likely scenario. what looks to be more likely is a continuation of the un5ettled white of the wood spell5 of rain cro55ing the un5ettled white of the wood spell5 of rain crossing the uk was 5trong wintertime. brief window5 spell5 of rain crossing the uk was 5trong wintertime. brief windows of brighter weather and fresher air pa55ing brighter weather and fresher air passing through the cookbook it is likely scenario. computer may be more certain about the forecast tomorrow.

thi5 this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm ka5ia madera. senior democrat5 i'm ka5ia madera. senior democrats a dress republicans to a cce pt democrats a dress republicans to accept reality over the presidential election as president trump continue5 presidential election as president trump continues to refuse to concede. china condemns the mass resignation of opposition politician5 condemns the mass resignation of opposition politicians in hong kong. britain has new rules to follow lying lawmakers violate the treaty between the two countries. bori5johnson'5 senior adviser leaves downing street by the end of the year. amne5ty street by the end of the year. amnesty international say5 probably hundreds of civilians are being ma55acred in the growing conflict in tigray in northern ethiopia.