the drug company pfizer has asked american regulators for emergency authorisation for its vaccine, as the uk government says it hopes to roll it out to the public in the new year. borisjohnson gives his full support to the home secretary priti patel, despite an inquiry upholding claims against her of bullying. the secretary of state for georgia has certified thatjoe biden won the presidential election in the state. meanwhile, donald trump has invited michigan state legislators to the white house in another attempt to overturn the result of the us election. the 620 summit of the world's biggest economies is being hosted online this weekend, from the saudi capital riyadh. but the event is in danger of being overshadowed by calls for the release of political prisoners.

hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the assistant editor of the daily mirror, jason beattie, and deputy comment editor at the telegraph, madeline grant. let's ta ke let's take a look now at tomorrow's front pages. the telegraph reports that families will be allowed to meet for up to a week at christmas — but tough restrictions may remain in place until then. the mirror leads on news of the vaccine, writing that it's seen an nhs document that says the roll—out could begin next month if supplies are ready. the express adds that everyone in the uk could be given a vaccine by spring, if it's approved by the regulator. the times reports that borisjohnson told tory mps to "form a square" of protection around the home secretary, priti patel, after an official inquiry

found that she had sworn, shouted at, and bullied senior officials. the guardian adds that the prime minister drove his own ethics adviser to quit when he refused to sack priti patel. meanwhile, the financial times writes that the uk has bet half a billion dollars of taxpayer money in the race to become a global satellite internet provider, competing with the likes of elon musk. the sun leads on news that princess eugenie will be moving into prince harry and meghan‘s home in england, frogmore cottage — calling it the "final mexit". and the mail reports that the earl of spencer has questioned the credibility of the investigation into the bbc interview with his sister, princess diana. let's start now, and jason and madeline, thanks to both of you for joining us once more. the front page

of the daily express, "covid—19jobs for all by spring." a little bit of hope on these front pages tomorrow morning? yes, and potentially this is very encouraging news, which is what we would've seen here. but this vaccine, this pfizer one, is effective in tests, and now itjust needs to get regulatory approval. and if it can get regulatory approval, then the health secretary matt hancock suggested we could have people being inoculated before christmas and rolled out early in the new year for most of the population. this is very encouraging. i would stress there's quite a lot of hurdles to overcome first. madeleine, what are those hurdles, do you think? there's all sorts of things. we've already seen how government has struggled with the operation moonshot, expanding its test and trace system, mass testing is been a problem. there's balls i have been dashed all sorts

of balls being dropped in the pandemic. there's does functionalities between the state at the best of time. but specifically with vaccinations, one issue is that they have to be transported and held ata they have to be transported and held at a particular temperature which represents a further issue for finding locations across the country that could keep it at the required temperature, and also administer it widely. there's also some talk of getting the army in to help with these things. so it's quite a claim, and i'm very heartened by the news because it suggests the government feel so positively about the success of the new vaccinations that we've heard about that they've upgraded their position from previously saying they would just be vaccinating the vulnerable to now saying they plan to do it for everyone. but asjason saying they plan to do it for everyone. but as jason says, saying they plan to do it for everyone. but asjason says, many hurdles. moving to the yorkshire post, because this is part of this whole covid—i9 argument, isn't it? a

lot of people are at home, a lot of people feel lonely, there's a mental health crisis as it is probably because of lockdown in this country. the yorkshire post carrying the headline, "wendell are alert over mental health crisis." the government has been accused of not doing enough to prevent a mental health crisis this winter —— winter alert. the mental health impact of what is happening is extremely serious, isn't it? and full credit to the yorkshire post for giving this story such prominence. and it reflects to me two things — one, that this will be an un—hidden, un—mechanized cost of lockdown. so quite rightly, everything has being done to support people's physical health, but it comes at this price of people's mental health. and we've

had reports, we should link to this the increased number of people feeling lonely and isolated, the people have found the second lockdown harder because it's darker and, you know, it feels more prolonged in many respects. the other thing it reflects is the fact that mental health services in england arejust that mental health services in england are just not good enough. and i know this from personal experience — they're very underfunded, children's health care is slightly better, but once you get to 18, the service literally falls off the cliff. and that's a consequence of years of underfunding, i'm afraid. madeleine, it says in the article that people of all demographics are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed for the first time during the pandemic. these are feelings that have been brought out by the pandemic. yes. i

mean, it's hard to imagine how you could design a situation that would be worse for people's mental health than lockdown, particularly during the winter. take all the things that essentially humanity uses to solve any of its problems at the best of times, you know, coming together in companionship. we use external stimuli to get away from our own heads. and what lockdown has done is trapped in a nation inside but also people inside their own heads, replacing normal social interaction with social media, and a whole range of things that are associated with bad mental health outcomes. and i think in general, this shows not just that i think we have been underfunding mental health for some time, buti underfunding mental health for some time, but i think that even with a better funded system, there wouldn't really be any spending your way out of this problem, because for all demographics, there are hugely difficult circumstances. and i think the government has tended to take a

pretty inflexible line in many areas that have compounded the mental health problems. so for example, many people in care homes have been unable to visit. there have not been sufficient steps to ensure people can see their relatives, and we know that has usually correlated with dementia patients being unvented —— and visited, leading to this massive deterioration. foryoung and visited, leading to this massive deterioration. for young people, and visited, leading to this massive deterioration. foryoung people, it is compounding eating disorders and all sorts of social anxieties, and so all sorts of social anxieties, and so on. all sorts of social anxieties, and so on. the way... where the government has said that even things like sports that you can play outdoors with low contact, very low transmission have been indiscriminately banned along with things like football, where there is more contact, that suggests to me they are being over cautious and haven't sufficiently thought about how to balance the mental well—being alongside the danger of transmission. let's talk about the daily telegraph now. the uk to spend billions after we finally break free

of brussels — these, jason, according to the telegraph, or rishi sunak‘s according to the telegraph, or rishi suna k‘s plans to according to the telegraph, or rishi sunak‘s plans to spend billions to level up a post brexit britain, including £1 billion to strengthen the uk border. we have the spending review next wednesday where rishi sunak will both try and explain how he'll restore the nation's finances and splash quite a lot of cash. i'm slightly tickled by the telegraph headline, it has the words in quotes, but a lot of it is talking about breaking free from brussels as though that'll give us some sort of economic bonus. but it then goes into detail explaining a lot of this money will be spent on the cost of brexit, such as £2 billion to improve our customs and border facilities. and an additional several hundred million to compensate farmers. i'm not sure it'll be a great post brexit bonanza

as its build in the headline stop and of course, we have to think about the cost of covid. that's right, but they do have to think about issues beyond covert mat, and this is part of the great reset that they're talking about to move on from some of the badly handled aspects of the pandemic and some of the internal difficulties that have been going on in number ten. and it seems they're not just spending money on trying to shore up the position ahead of our departure from the eu, but also billions on problems, there's talk of large sways of the civil service changing rules so that they are no longer biased to the southeast, and planning to spend billions of dutch tens of millions on infrastructure problems. so this is something that is looking a bit beyond that and going back to the manifesto on which

they were elected, because there had been mutterings that some of their policies announced recently hadn't beenin policies announced recently hadn't been in keeping with the spirit of notjust winning the been in keeping with the spirit of not just winning the red wall, been in keeping with the spirit of notjust winning the red wall, but the new tories that have only very re ce ntly the new tories that have only very recentlyjoined the the new tories that have only very recently joined the fold. but where will the money come from, jason? that is a very good question. bowling is fairly cheap at the moment, but at the same time we are being told that the public sector workers, there's not enough money to give them a pay rise. as ninth ave once said, socialism is the language of priorities. rishi sunak‘s priorities don't seem very socialist to me. let's move on and talk about the world section of the times. " trump tries to strong—arm states after tonic" the ever continuing effo rts after tonic" the ever continuing

efforts by donald trump and his camp to change the results of the election. what do you make of what he's been doing, madeleine, and the way that a lot of people have been reacting in america, worrying about the future of democracy, quite frankly? it's a real sense of the la st frankly? it's a real sense of the last days of rome about all this, the times is reporting that he's holed up in the white house and spending his last night while being various republican leaders in states that voted forjoe biden, urging them to reject the results. so it has the airof them to reject the results. so it has the air of desperation about it. and also, the sense that things are finally beginning to fall apart internally within the republican party. they report that one formerly loyal senators broke ranks to condemn donald trump after the truly co i’o nary condemn donald trump after the truly coronary display that we saw yesterday with rudy giuliani in that press conference , yesterday with rudy giuliani in that press conference, where he and two other lawyers on the team just spouted off some totally wild and unsubstantiated claims about fraud.

it's not going away, and i would expect this to carry on for sometime. i know the pollsters haven't exactly covered themselves in glory with their predictions for the last election, but i did see some opinion yesterday suggesting that morty —— more than 40% of americans do believe the election was one fraudulently. going back to your point about democracy, things often feel very divided in this country, but i do believe america has reached a point of utter mutual incomprehension between the two sides and utter factionalism. i think we would struggle to fully comprehend that, and i don't really know how a country that divided really moves past that. very briefly, let's talk about the ft weekend story. "the us bets space race against musk." the uk putting forward a half $1 billion of taxpayer money to become a global internet satellite provider. $500

million, a lot of people may be asking themselves, if there is no money to give all public sector workers a pay rise, how are we investing this kind of money into a race basically against a private company? this is a very curious story. we were part of a satellite project with the european union called galileo, but because we are leaving, we could no longer participate. and almost in a slightly macho, ridiculous way, we just said we would have our own. we've come across this company which filed bankruptcy in march, and we decided to put a load of taxpayer money into it. what makes it even stranger is that the senior civil servant for business advised against this, but they've still gone ahead with it. it's not entirely clear whether this but will come up, and it's a huge gamble with our money.

what are we going to benefit from doing it? so it is very, very curious. madeleine, in 15 seconds, your views on investing this amount of money? it's a very bit to make it risky bet, and i very much thought initially this was a terrible idea, but there's two things that give me hope. firstly, they are investing $500 million alongside the government. you know you have a dud when it's not attracting any private investors at all, in this company is at least putting up some of the money and has delivered some satellites. so it's not a complete bulk from the blue, but i share many ofjason's reservations. it's bulk from the blue, but i share many of jason's reservations. it's been a pleasure to talk to both of you, thanks so much for taking the time this friday evening to talk to us on bbc news. next, it's the film review with mark kermode.