elaine dunkley, bbc news in huddersfield. for details of organisations offering information and support with emotional distress, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline. or you can call for free at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. football, and all the home nations have been playing tonight in the national league. 0ur sports correspondent andy swiss brings us up to date. a big night for wales‘ biggest star. gareth bale‘s team were facing finland, and they were soon in control. finland'sjere uronen sent off, and wales took advantage, bale setting up harry wilson to put the hosts ahead at half—time. and after it, danieljames extended their lead in some style.

finland did pull one back, but kieffer moore sealed wales‘ 3—1 win. it means they finish top of their nations league group, and it could mean a play—off spot for the next world cup. not a bad night's work. for scotland, though, there was disappointment. they also had a chance to top their group, but a superb finish from manor solomon gave israel the lead. and despite some chances, scotland were beaten 1—0. after qualifying for the euros last week, no celebrations this time. in belfast, meanwhile, around 1000 fans watched northern ireland against romania. the hosts already relegated from the group, but they took the lead through liam boyce. they couldn't hang on, though. the late goalfrom romania's eric bicfalvi secured a 1—1 draw. as for england, well, they also only had pride at stake against iceland, and they soon found plenty of it. declan rice putting them ahead before mason mount doubled their lead before the interval. it was all very straightforward. two second—half goals

from phil foden sealed a 4—0 win — england ending their autumn campaign on a high. andy swiss, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. £1. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and journalist, rachel shabi, and the conservative commentator, tim montgomerie. thank you both forjoining us. let's get started. "the cost of christmas" — that's on the front of the daily mirror, with ministers reportedly looking

at a five—day break from coronavirus rules to allow indoor mixing over the festive period. the daily mail has the same story, writing that families will be allowed to meet up at christmas, but it may result in a further month of lockdown. the paper also features an image of bbcjournalist martin bashir, as it's announced prince william has welcomed an investigation into the panorama interview with his mother, princess diana. the guardian reports a senior home office employee resigned due to complaints of racism and discrimination in the department's schemes which were set up to address the windrush scandal. the paper leads with the news that borisjohnson has agreed a four—year £16.5 billion increase in defence spending, despite the financial pressures of the pandemic. and the daily express says it's a double dose of good news, with two coronavirus vaccines producing promising results. the times has a similar lead, reporting the first coronavirus

vaccine could be ready for use within weeks after pfizer said its version was more effective than it initially thought. the paper also has the story that borisjohnson has made the largest investment in the military since the cold war. so let's begin. as always, lovely to have you both with us. we have been enjoying give bit of good news when it comes to these vaccines. but if we look at these vaccines. but if we look at the financial times, rachel, when it comes to rishi sunak, the chancellor, he is going to be giving his spending review next week and the ft is saying that rishi sunak faces the worst hit public finances since the second world war. some of the figures here are incredibly dramatic. yes. completelyl the figures here are incredibly dramatic. yes. completely i watering figures and a really bleak scenario for the next few months and years ahead. it is predicted in this piece

in the ft the uk will not emerge from this until the next election in 2024. this from this until the next election in 202a. this is, two things that we can say about this. one is that part of the reason the uk is in such dire financial straits is this government mismanagement, the fact we went into the first lockdown so late minute we stayed in it longer most of the fact the government did not use the first lockdown to build an effective test and trace system means we are now and trace system means we are now and in the lockdown. this of the hardship it was always going to be tough, corso was, but the response tough, corso was, but the response to the pandemic has been made it worse but the other thing to the shows us what we need to get out of this is really bold restructuring of the economy. i don't think tinkering around the edges is going to cut it when we're looking at the the scalp and my is follow the big talk i'm

make spending and lately we've heard the government green industrial revolution which by the way is a labour term for labour policy, father talk about spending when it comes down to it, the conservatives really are just talk and they don't really are just talk and they don't really have much of an idea, much less a plan of how to do the kind of intensive restructuring of the economy that we now so desperately need to make sure thatjobs are protected and the worst recession and hardships and people are protected from those as much as possible. the paper is drilling down into what rishi sunak will potentially need to do in and talked about the tough decisions on taxes in public spending before the next election. and you remember back in september, seems to be moving very quickly or slowly but rishi sunak was talking about a no tax write horschel back in september. he will have to address something. —— horror

show. the numbers are huge. this is very expensive. extraordinarily expensive. as you say, some of the figures in their roi watering. we will experience an 11% drop in the national income. that will be the biggest drop in income for 300 years. a bigger drop than we've ever really known. and i don't know how much these numbers factor in how much these numbers factor in how much worse thing still could be, we don't know how long the lockdown that england is currently still part of in other parts of the uk have different versions of, how long that will go on. i'll be going to have for the lockdowns in january will go on. i'll be going to have for the lockdowns injanuary and february? meaning further reductions in economic activity. the decisions that the chancellor will have to face over the next few weeks, the first of all, setting the broad

picture for what is ahead in over the next two years will be horrendous. rachel made a number of party political points in her initial response to this report. all ican initial response to this report. all i can say is that thank goodness we had a conservative government that repair finance had a conservative government that re pair finance before had a conservative government that repair finance before this pandemic struck. and we had the labour spend spend spend agenda before now, the public finances would've been even worse. so yes, difficult decisions will have to be made goodbye but not so will have to be made goodbye but not so difficult is if we had a a reckless labour government before i'iow. reckless labour government before now. before we reckless labour government before i'iow. before we move reckless labour government before now. before we move on you want to get back in on that. it is really interesting that that is curious analysis of what happened over the last ten years. by any measure, a lot of scientific measures have said that this same thing which is that the governments austerity measures over the last ten years but britain ina over the last ten years but britain in a worse position to respond to the pandemic. we fared worse because of the stripping down in the

hollowing out of the state that was carried out by the conservative governments. it is a curious analysis that tim just presented there. let's move on and leave it for now. let's look at the high news paper, talking about christmas. we've heard a lot about christmas coming up and we groaned when talk about christmas early on usually bet about christmas early on usually bet a lot of us desperately needing wanting to see our loved ones and family members who have been parted from. but the i isjust highlighting that whatever happens, if we do meet up that whatever happens, if we do meet up with family members come if there is some kind of using or a day of where we can meet, family members, we will pay for on the other side. absolutely. talking about the horrifying economic numbers on the front of the financial times. the i and a lot of the other papers have another really horrifying number and thatis

another really horrifying number and that is for every day that we potentially enjoy with loved ones, or may have to pay with five more days of lockdown in january so the government of the uk and the governments of the united kingdom are trying to work relatively closely so that people of england, scotland and wales in northern ireland can enjoy the same christmas raging webmasters of course because there will be people from wales wanted to visit people from england and so on. if we have a five day period but we can celebrate christmas with loved ones, that might meana christmas with loved ones, that might mean a 25 day period of lockdown in january. i might mean a 25 day period of lockdown injanuary. i think a lot of people come i hear this from a lot of older people who may not have many more christmases to enjoy, they wa nt many more christmases to enjoy, they want to make that sacrifice so that they can have potentially one of our la st they can have potentially one of our last christmases with their family.

but the consequences of spending so much intense time together means a lot of the good that people think they are doing at the moment in the lockdown could easily be unwound. so really difficult decisions by policymakers and all of us as we contemplate what to do in the festive period. indeed the development also looking at this particular aspect of it. christmas back on according to them but again focusing on that payback that will be facing in january, focusing on that payback that will be facing injanuary, pretty miserable at the best of times. but they are talking about this plan to roll out force households to mix already we had a loss of this confusion as to how many people, what is a household, we will have to see what the exact rules are going forward i guess. that is right. the government has said that it is looking it allowing three to four households to be in bubbles but it has said that it is still trying to work out the logistics of that. so

we can expect to hear more detail how that will work, that hasn't yet been finalised the scenes but tim is absolutely right. this is a difficult decision and went we think about christmas, i can't help but think of the tens of thousands of people in this country who are morning, who have lost loved ones to covid—i9 this year, of course christmas is a time when we all think about loved ones, so my heart really goes out to people who are hearing this conversation about christmas time at a time of mourning and loss. but i do think it is a really difficult decision and i think the worry is that if you don't find a way of having people be together during that time, during christmas, the chances are people will do it anyway and then you have rule breaking and the risk of

deterioration afterwards, but i do think you are right that the new year isn't the best of times anyway, january, we all broke, we have to go back to work, it is freezing cold, soi back to work, it is freezing cold, so i don't know income is lockdown worse or is itjust, i'm going to be broken at home anyway? it is a tricky one. i can arty tell you i'm working on new year's eve. they ago. the humbug. —— i can already tell you i'm working. we would do an impromptu paper review. let's leave the coronavirus for now. let's have a look at the guardian. talking about the huge amounts of money that coronavirus is costing them with the guardian is focusing on the £16.5 billion that the prime minister, what it says have found for defence and in line with the foreign aid budget, their budgets are being cut. 0ne budget, their budgets are being cut. one of the big challenges for this

government of course is we are bracketing on that new year's eve when you will be working. laughter. a lot of people will be worried and people who believe that britain should be a big player on the international stage as always we had traditionally been, whether we will retreat into ourselves. i think we have seen in the last 24 hours a big attempt by the prime minister to show that britain will still be a global player. yesterday, we had the preview of the prime minister a very big announcement on green issues which the veteran environment correspondent jeffrey liens described in the biggest announcement by ever by a british governments. today we have this commitment for britain to remain a big player in the different states. i think both of those announcements are very welcome but of course the subtext as you implied in this guardian article is this is partly

being paid for potentially by a big reduction of britain approximate age spending. andl reduction of britain approximate age spending. and i certainly for one regret that a great deal because i think britain approximate commitment and meeting did nor .7% of gdp commitment to spend on foreign aid has been one of our countries proudest achievement. —— britain's 80 spending. to cut the aid budget any time and probably the worlds poorest need our assistance most i think is a great strain and gas, we will have to take really difficult spending decisions. by balancing the covid—19 budgets on the backs of the worlds poorest people seems to be a wrong decision to me and i hope people at this late stage the government will choose not to make it. the guardian suggesting the prime minister decided to boost spending on armed forces, keen to show us president electjoe biden and britain what are they strong military capability after brexit.

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