and what the rules say. how do you react to that, roy? the only thing that's missing is the physical contact and if that has to be, i would rather miss out in 2020 if it guaranteed we could do what we normally do in 2021. but he will miss having fun with his grandkids. looking a bit santa claus with the beard. you are not the first one to call me that. it's all about family, family and making memories. tonight sam is hopeful, building a grotto in the garden — planning for the christmas she has been dreaming of. jon kay, bbc news, plymouth. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

this is bbc world news, the headlines. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are george eaton — who's senior online editor at the new statesman — and the daily telegraph's economics correspondent lizzy burden. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. starting with the metro — and before we start, fans of the great british bake off look away now as the winner features on a number the front pages alongside todays big story. the paper goes with ‘rule of three‘ — news that people from three households will be allowed to get together in "bubbles" over the festive period, from the 23rd of december to the 27th. the daily telegraph leads on the plans. the paper says borisjohnson had originally hoped to allow families to get together for a whole week, but had to slim down the plan following opposition from leaders in scotland and wales. the mirror leads with the chritmas plans.

this sick campaign carried out by the mirror and asking the chancellor ina spinning the mirror and asking the chancellor in a spinning review tomorrow to look after people who are the worst off. the express carries a warning from the prime minister, borisjohnson, not to throw caution to the wind as the paper says have a merry, but not so many, christmas. the daily mail goes with what it calls the 12 rules of christmas and says the package of regulations are a rare example of uk—wide cooperation. the paper also notes that only those under 65 years old will be allowed to leave care to be with family over christmas. the i also leads with the new christmas rules. it reports that the health secretary, matt hancock, has said all restrictions could go once the over—sos are vaccinated next year.

finally, the guardian also leads on todays announcement. it notes that there will be no social distancing for the united households, meaning people can hug relatives possibly for the first time in months. so let's begin... let's start with you, your paper, not sure if it's your byline, no it is not, but five days of christmas with three households together. but you've got to pick your bubbles now or soon before the christmas period. you've got to stay in the same bubble the whole way through christmas, so in the 23rd to the 27th of december. can be in three households fixed for five days, but it means that you might be trouble with your in—laws because bigger families will be able to all meet at

the same time come up good news is you can hug grandma, even though you don't have to isolate beforehand. i'm not sure how good an idea that is. sadly care home residents won't be able to join is. sadly care home residents won't be able tojoin in the is. sadly care home residents won't be able to join in the bubble, which is even more bad news for old people. you can mix freely in places of worship cover the whole family can sit next to each other on christmas day at church, but the pubs are really angry because they are asking how can it be fair for people to mix in their own households but not in the pub? and i would say that's bit of christmas is christmas eve in the pub with the friends, or new year's eve in the pub with your friends, and no offence to my family but i can see why they are disappointed. but if you are in tieri maybe you can, exist outside as long as there six oi’ exist outside as long as there six orfewer? exist outside as long as there six or fewer? yes quite possibly. but they imagine a fair amount of people

will be in tier 2 or two or three. i think was always inevitable that the government was going to have to announce something of this kind, obviously all of this depend upon consent to some degree and clearly had they not had relaxed the rules christmas they would have faced a revolt, and an embarrassing political u—turn. boris johnson revolt, and an embarrassing political u—turn. borisjohnson did originally say would be back to normal by christmas and he did not manage expectations well in that sense. epidemiologists always warning about a second wave, and i think this is why you are also now seeing a degree of caution from borisjohnson with that seeing a degree of caution from boris johnson with that slightly cringe worthy line yesterday about be jolly but not too jolly. that's where the government does not want isa where the government does not want

is a lot of super spreading incidents. going to attract embarrassing headlines towards the end of the christmas period is leading to january. , jolly christmas but a jolly careful one as well. i would with the psychology is here. they said the people should there personaljudgement in that video he sent from number ten, and not only lengthen the law and for the authoritarian way but i don't think the government has a choice at this point. ever since the barnard castle incident i think the tone has been to common sense, and so the government can only hope that people exercise it along the christmas period. he's not there any more so he might be closer there than before. let's look at the ft, george, shall we? rishi sunak

corrals 4 billion to shield jobs and livelihoods from covid shock. it's been widely briefed, jobs, jobs, jobs and seems to be the mantra from the treasury with all the projections that the unemployment rate is going to rise quite significantly over the next six months. it is absolutely the chancellor. unemployment is currently 4.8% which is relatively low by historic standards, but has risen from a lower 3.8%. and as you say all the forecasts are that it will rise some say around 8%, some say 10% and clearly the spike injob losses has been limited by the continued extension of the furlough scheme which is now been extended all the way until march. so because they write that he's investing more in this area, he will be pleased with the attention for that and certainly fits with the government message which is that they are

spending, borisjohnson message which is that they are spending, boris johnson is message which is that they are spending, borisjohnson is very keen to avoid any accusations of returning to austerity, but it's worth noting in the small print of the ftp site will be flashpoints tomorrow, the most obvious one is the public sector pay freeze which nhs workers will be exempt from but 4 million people will not. that will be seen as a bit of a kick in the teeth for public sector workers who obviously include teachers who have not had an easy time with the intensive attempts to offer catch—up lessons to children, and the wider public sector and the point that although public sector work have been more protected and private sector workers ultimately will produce putting power in the economy which could have a knock on effect forjobs and salaries elsewhere in the private sector. lizzie reported

economics, it say this not the time for fiscal consolidation at the moment, but when is the time? this isa moment, but when is the time? this is a spinning review, not a budget but what are you hearing closes out the chancellor will have to work out how he pays for these emergency measures at some point. if you lisa for too late to be to close the general election but if he does it for too soon he could choke the economic recovery. we are expecting some fiscal responsibility in the spending review to come in dribs and drabs. so this public sector pay freeze is one measure, but at the same time revert he heard about the injection of defence spending, so it's a fine balance between spending and tightening. george, the programme they are going to be pushing or announcing tomorrow for an extension to the restart programme, nobody should be left isolated or loan or without help,

the ft reporting is going to be tailored to help, especially for the older workers, it does not mention the younger workers who really have been absolutely hammered, haven't they, by default in jobs or hospitality, do you think that's the right focus? it seems unusual when you put it like that because traditionally when they talk about this growing effect on unemployment you're talking about the young because they have to bear the costs of years of joblessness because they have to bear the costs of years ofjoblessness that the long—term effects of that are obvious the more significant if it's at the start of their career, absolutely right to support older workers as well because especially with an ageing population is larger cut off is that people have to work longer to help the government raise enough revenue to support those who have retired. but you are right that the young should be the focus, the government has had the kick starter programme for the young, but the question will be tomorrow before

billion figure sounds like a lot but given the scale of the challenge facing the economy i think there will be criticism and scrutiny as to whether the chancellor is doing enough. let's move on just now to the daily mirror because they are focusing on the very young here in the picture here these three girls, 4 million people living in poverty, —— children living in poverty, offering new hope if not ever made a national tragedy. poverty, absolute poverty, this relative poverty. it's confusing, isn't it? in terms of the definition of poverty. definitely can but there's no question that poverty has a worsening in this crisis and the mirror, it's give me five campaign and out of it they wa nted five campaign and out of it they wanted increase in child benefits, they also want an increase in the national minimum wage to £10 an

hour. that's not likely to happen tomorrow if the briefings are anything to go by. it chancellor is expected to cancel an actual living wage rise because of concerns it could put companies out of business, because it would be too expensive to pay people a higher wage, it was supposed to go up from £8 72 to £9 21 but only expected now to go up in line with inflation. but you know many people who are on those really low wages have been at the front line in this pandemic. and it will come as a real blow to people who have had to cut hours and had to go on furlough during the crisis. the definition of absolute poverty is £50,600 a year which is the sort of low were universal credit is another benefit would kick in as well. this is an issue, isn't it with every

government is trying to confront, but as lizzie was saying with all the other spending commitments how politically imperative is it for the government to do this, do you think? it's a good question, and these a lot of causes but certainly it's a moral imperative. and i also think it's a political imperative to the extent that child poverty is worse in some of the areas where the conservatives won mps, in some cases for the first time ever. if they do wa nt for the first time ever. if they do want to level up as they put it, to reduce the gap between poor regions and the rest of the country then and in child poverty is absolutely at the heart of that, and it's also vital for the economy because of course children who grow up in poverty are denied opportunities that others are and it's much harder to achieve social mobility for every child to prefilled the potential they have if poverty becomes

ingrained, and it's also significant that the uk has gone backwards on this, so they've got an opinion piece written by tony blair who obviously was prime minister from 97 until 2007, and under the last labour government, of these 13 years there was a million children taken out of poverty, and tony blair announced an ambition of ending child poverty by 2020, well we are now of course in 2020 and the reverse has happened, child poverty has increased again, so i think for those reasons is a political imperative as well as a moral and economic one. the parameters and definitions have changed as well that was always the argument during the player years, talking with the wedge —— red wall, talk about leveling up and at what i thought was interesting was the shared prosperity fund and what the