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she felt a sharp cramp... "and yet," she added... her words have resonated with those all too familiar with pregnancy loss. if i had seen this essay when i had my first pregnancy loss, i would've felt a lot less isolated and a lot less alone. because although i knew that the loss of pregnancy was common, no—one really talked to me about it, and no—one actually really knew what to say to understand what i was going through. meghan joins a number of high—profile women who have opened up about the loss of a child. chrissy teigen was widely praised for sharing intimate pictures in the aftermath of a stillbirth. michelle obama wrote of her miscarriage in her autobiography. and zara tindall, prince harry's cousin, revealed she'd suffered two miscarriages before the birth of her second child. it's estimated that up
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to one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. all couples will cope in their own way. but experts agree it's important those that want to talk about it feel that they can. there is a lot of pressure that is put on women to be able to conceive, and conceive successfully, and when we don't talk about it, unfortunately, we can hold a lot of that shame and stigma within us, within our families and sometimes within our communities and particular cultures. the sussexes stepped back from royal duties earlier this year. but as this article illustrates, meghan hasn't stepped back from public life. sarah campbell, bbc news. for details of organisations which offer advice and support with pregnancy—related issues, go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline. and you can see the links there. with just eight months until the tokyo olympics, the new head coach of
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british athletics, christian malcolm, has spoken publicly for the time about his new role. the former olympic sprinter is the first black coach to take on the role, and he told our correspondent laura scott it was time for equal opportunities right across the world of sport. commentator: and christian's got to really work here. christian malcolm knows all about the highs and lows of athletics in britain, and the pressure, but he is readying himself for scrutiny of a different kind now, having been appointed head coach of the olympics athletics team. it's a great opportunity, it's very exciting. a bit shocked to be in the role, but also very grateful. despite the diversity in athletics, there's never been a black person in the role. malcolm's already tasted success as a coach and believes he's earned this position. it not about being the first black coach. for me, it's just about being in the role i am as head coach and being good enough to do thejob, regardless of my skin colour. i can't really tell you the reason why it's taken until 2020 for this
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to happen, considering we've had so many good athletes on the track in the past, but i feel the time is nowjust to have equal opportunity across—the—boa rd, you know, notjust with skin colour, with gender, you know? for me, it's all about being the best person for the job. commentator: in asher-smith is away... ! top of his agenda is preparing for the rescheduled olympic games. dina asher—smith and katarina johnson—thompson are among team gb‘s podium contenders, but at last year's world championships, great britain missed its medals target. what are your realistic ambitions for tokyo? i want to be able to see athletes step up, you know? i want to see those athletes who may have been top 12 last year make it up and be top eight come tokyo, and those who were top eight, try and get in amongst the medals. so that's my expectations, for the athletes to try and do their best and actually improve on what they've done before. his career was often about handing the baton, now it's about taking it. he may have hung up his spikes, but his success will still be
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measured on the track. laura scott, bbc news, loughborough. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the deputy political editor at the daily mail, john stevens and the deputy political editor at the guardian, jessica elgot. great to see you both, thanks much for joining great to see you both, thanks much forjoining us. start with some of the front pages that we have. the metro leads with the news that football legend diego maradona has died from a heart attack at the age of 60. he is described as the greatest player of his generation, and arguably the greatest ever. the sun says england's world cup
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nemesis and one of the all time greats is now in the hands of god — a reference to maradona's fampus and controversial goal aainst england at the 1986 world cup. the telegraph goes with a warning from the chancellor, rishi sunak, that britain's economic emergency " has only just begun". it comes as as he put the country on notice of tax rises to pay for the £550 billion cost of coronavirus. the guardian goes with those two stories dominating the papers tonight. a tribute to maradona. also, the paper reports that the chancellor has responded to the deepest slump in more than 300 years by pledging a fresh £55 billion to tackle the pandemic. the express says rishi sunak has promised to invest in recovery in order to help the country bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. and we can take a look at how one of the regional papers in england —
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the yorkshire post — is focusing on the new spending plans. the paper says a new £4 billion levelling—up fund and the creation of a uk infrastructure bank in the north has been celebrated as heralding in "the age of the north", but there are still concerns over power being held by whitehall. the times finally saying the impact of the coronavirus crisis on pubic finances has been laid bare with the chancellor choosing to freeze public sector pay and reduce foreign aid, but, the paper says, he must still find tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts to stop debt from running out of control. just some of the papers we have gotten in orbit day so as always very good to have you both with us, jessica and john. and we are going to start with a story that as i have just highlighted every single paper having an image of maradona. jessica, just a testimony to his strength of character, his sheer
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presence and ultimately, his absolute talent. yeah, absolutely the sun goes with the hand of god and that moment where he uses his fist to punch the ball into the empty net in the 1986 quarterfinals. that is what he is remembered for not in this country but for around the world, he is reallyjust an idle to summoning people notjust in buenos aires where he is from but in naples where he led the team to great victories as well. and there is three days of national mourning in argentina over this. itjust shows you what an icon he was and how much she meant to so many people. absolutely and john many of the papers going with that goal from god, maradona himself, he described it as he believed it was craftiness rather than cheating. it is
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inflammatory to some people... in that 1986 world cup match. i think you tweeted this evening that he lived in a blessing chuckle life, hope he will find comfort in the hands of god which i think sums it up hands of god which i think sums it up pretty well. absolutely, and his tweet, that is so much also what was on the front page, the hands of god. lots of people feel very strongly about that. the guardian also paying should be to diego maradona but jessica let's focus on its headline, your paper, the biggest uk slump in yea rs. we your paper, the biggest uk slump in years. we had that sobering spending review from the chancellor rishi sunak. the figures speak for themselves really.
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some of the numbers in this that rishi sunak made out for mps isjust astonishingly stark. we are used to rishi sunak coming to the house of commons to deliver relatively good news about the way the government is going to spend to help prop up the economy in the wake of serious coronavirus restrictions. this time around, he was really delivering quite bad news. he had some spending to do, but he said that there is more money for housing, railways, broadband, upgrades, the green agenda but apart from that, money for this levelling up fund you noticed. but big cuts to foreign aid and a freeze of public—sector pay which are both very controversial. you cut out very slightly but we got the just of what you're saying, so thatis the just of what you're saying, so that is all good jessica. we're just going to check your line. john what
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guardian is done quite cleverly is showing the 300 your timeline. we are all becoming great experts on the frost of 1709. and the figures asjust said are really the frost of 1709. and the figures as just said are really stark. the frost of 1709. and the figures asjust said are really stark. and the petition from the office for budget responsibility which does our official broadcasts in the uk is predicting the economy will shrink by 11.3% from the sheer sharpest fall in 300 years and rishi sunak talking about however foreign spade will go up for a record in peacetime, it sounds accused number but to put that in context, that is about 19% of our national income. and rishi sunak still talking about spending, saying still he is focused on the coronavirus crisis, still needing to spend on the furlough scheme, but he is setting out the picture of the big hole in our finances that at some point we are
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going to have to start think about how we are going to fill it. summing decisions aren't therefore the decision—makers at the top? the telegraph also picturing diego maradona, the images of him lifting the world cup in 1986. hero, dillion, genius, themes we have touched on. the article and wants to hone in on again is rishi sunak and the way he describes the economic emergency only just describes the economic emergency onlyjust beginning. it is a wake—up call. do you think people were aware as to just help at the situation was? i think it is hard to fail to be aware ofjust what was? i think it is hard to fail to be aware of just what a was? i think it is hard to fail to be aware ofjust what a hole coronavirus has brown in the public finances. i think the one thing we're coming to with his although the bursar of borisjohnson's parliament is going to be used com pletely parliament is going to be used completely dominated by the dealing of the health emergency with
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coronavirus, we hope that by abuse some point next year, that health emergency will be over in some form or another with a vaccine but this economic emergency is going to be long—lasting. that is going to be the thing that defines birth johnson's at least first parliament of his premiership. -- boris johnson's. when we listen today to what the chancellor was announcing, john, he didn't touch on the idea on how we pay for it in the terms of tax rises, that is something we will potentially hear further down the line possibly but that was not for today. today was very much about the big figures and the recovery. we have a couple of ideas of what is when to happen with spending cuts, so when to happen with spending cuts, so he talked about how he wants to cut the foreign aid budget by £4 billion a year and how he also didn't think we would have pay raises for all of the public sector. so unless you're a public—sector worker in the nhs order for your
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income is what £24,000 a year, it is unlikely you will get a pay rise. but we have had biggest squabbles about those things. labour criticising the move on the public sector say saying that you were all out clapping for karis and key workers but now you are stopping pay rise in foreign aid is highly controversial. we saw loads of tory mps line—up to criticise the move today. the tories think it is popular with voters. they might have problems getting it through the commons and the lords. they're having massive rows over the stew things. the scale of the tax resident going to need and the spending cuts we would need are virtually quite small in comparison. and the other story that the daily telegraph is looking at is what will happen, jessica after we come out of locked down two, the second lockdown that we are in that is coming towards the end? we are in the last throes of it. what is the paper
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talking through? because it is featuring liverpool and we also know something about london as well, jessica. liverpool is expected to avoid the strictest restrictions tomorrow, tier three restrictions which would see most pubs and shops close. —— pubs and restaurants. that isa close. —— pubs and restaurants. that is a big turnaround for a city with the worst rates in the country and the worst rates in the country and the sight of this massive testing pilot. more around greater manchester, they fear they will be in tier three although they had been fighting hard to be in tier two even though rates are going down there. they have some concern about how i think hospitalisations. and a lot of conservative mps and he kind of greater manchester area and in banks sure are saying parts of the region are having lower rates, we shouldn't be having this big broad brush
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approach. —— in an linkage that will be controversial in areas like kent with their big disparities with very high case numbers and less high case numbers and other areas of it. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, is expecting it to be in tier two and we expect that as well. but it is going to be very controversial if there are varying large swaths of there are varying large swaths of the country in tier three, lots of conservative mps don't agree with how harsh the restrictions in tier three are and they could make life very difficult for the premise or next week when this is voted on. john we are clear on the way these... we were in tears previously to the watch them but they were slightly different and they have been slightly more strengthened, tier plus i guess, i do not know how to describe it but are we clear? so far there has been an awful what of confusion about what is and is not allowed. a lot

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