this is bbc world news, the headlines. ethiopia says it has started the final phase of its military operation against local forces in its northern tigray region. there are fears for the safety of civilians in the area. the uk government has given details of its revised three—tier system of virus restrictions. the prime minister says it will mean a tough winter for many. some of borisjohnson‘s own party have expressed anger. thousands of people have been paying their respects to argentine football legend diego maradona who died on wednesday. police clashed with fans earlier as they tried to shut down access to the presidential palace where his body is laying in state. a turkish court has sentenced more than three hundred people to life in prison over the failed coup ofjuly 2016. almost 500 faced charges — including a us—based cleric, who is being tried in his absence.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political strategist, jo tanner and disability consultant and comedy producer, simon minty. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. ‘tiers of despair‘ reads the front page of the daily mirror, as most of england is placed in tiers 2 and 3 once the country emerges from national lockdown next wednesday. the times suggests that 99% of the country faces the strictest two tiers of coronavirus restrictions until well into january. the metro's headline ‘the north sees red' comes after the prime minister today announced that large swathes of the north of england are amongst the areas being placed into tier 3 — the highest tier.

with much of yorkshire landing in this category, the yorkshire post reports on number 10's defense of the tier system — the paper says the high restrictions are despite infection rates in the region falling faster than almost anywhere else in the country. ‘all wight for some‘ reads the front page of the sun — the isle of wight, isles of scilly and cornwall are the only areas to be placed in tier one. ‘don‘t hug gran this christmas‘ is the message on the front of the i — as families are urged to avoid risks to avoid further lockdowns after the festive period. elsewhere, the guardian claims that an acquaintance and former neighbour of matt hancock is supplying the government with tens of millions of vials for nhs covid—19 tests despite, the paper says having had no previous experience of producing medical supplies. but alex bourne, the man in question, categorically denies he profited from his personal contact with hancock. and, the independant shows fans in naples ‘mourning an icon‘, with fans paying tribute

to footballer diego maradona before his former club‘s european tie last night. always lovely to have you both back, and we are going to start this time with the sun, and simon we will throw this to you. try to have a bit of fun with the headline, all white for some, not many people are laughing at the moment, but with their pointing out that the moment is that such a small area is in this lowest tier following as and when we finally come out of this second lockdown period, simon. yes, i quite like it. good title, i did manage to get the aisles of silly our cornwall in there. we can understand weathers three areas are in tieri which is

the most relaxed of all the cheers, however is going to level up from this most recent lockdown. notice that they‘ve got complete freedom but they have not had recorded cases for a week in these areas and that‘s why they are putting put in that area, i suppose this and other papers are pointing to is this fair? and how do we actually balance this? how is it being measured, how do we come to the conclusion about what areas go into different tiers, and obviously some are saying is it based on economics? because the south seems to be doing quite well whereas big swathes of the north and midlands are actually in tier 3, so there are questions about how it‘s measured and i looked into it and it‘s about case detection, and how many people become, or test positive out of all the tests they do, and one of the debts more subtle talks with the nhs pressure. the nhs pressure in that area. as ever with

these things, it seems that each paper or individual areas will be pushing back saying whether it‘s fairorunfair pushing back saying whether it‘s fair or unfair on pushing back saying whether it‘s fairorunfairon them, pushing back saying whether it‘s fair or unfair on them, and if you are in cornwall, or the isle of wight you are doing all right but we are not allowed to travel there, if you are not living there you can‘t go there for the holiday at. as confusion as well when it comes to travelling, atjo are sticking to a faster earlier we get the real fine print and he was saying that potentially if you had a second home which gets people so angry when you travel from the higher tiers come in tier 3 you cannot but tear to your potential can travel, i‘m getting myself confused now, tier 2 to tier 1. of course there‘s still a lot of questions when it comes exactly how it will pan out after the second lockdown. it certainly seemed to be, i'm not around the rules of travel

except from what i've read there's a tightening around the rules when it comes the very highest cheers. we can't tier 3 for instance. i'm a very strange anomaly in that my actual address on the letter that is sent to me is listed as kanto but i'm actually a london borough that's oi'i i'm actually a london borough that's on the order. with the very start. sol on the order. with the very start. so i actually, many of us here thought, hang on which one are we in? we've always been described in south london and described ourselves as kent and we are now all disparate to be loved and because of the difference in the rules. some of the shots for example just across the border in places would not be able to go toa border in places would not be able to go to a because strictly speaking you are not supposed to travel from tier2 into tier3 you are not supposed to travel from tier 2 into tier 3 and vice versa. in that case is go to the daily mail but let‘s keep it withjo because it‘s focusing on kent which is now in tier3, do it‘s focusing on kent which is now in tier 3, do you know this village,

are you aware of it? i would ofjust there where i lived is picturesque as that, but it's not. what's really interesting is the male makes the point that 99% of the country has moved to higher tears and there's a lot of concern and confusion about what's happened, and it's really interesting part the uk because it would have remembered that be word used to talk about brexit. many, many times over the last couple of years we talked about how kent was going to become this huge car park because of all of the phrase that comes in on the southeast coast. and so comes in on the southeast coast. and so we've now got this prospective approach at the end of the transition period and this area we are going to have issues around transportation, and can is also being shoved into tier 3 which has beena being shoved into tier 3 which has been a great concern. bunch of mps approach the prime minister earlier this week. saying they wanted it to be very carefully considered when

the decision on tears was made. 0ther the decision on tears was made. other mp5 also making representations but i note the kent mps have done that. they are primarily conservative so it's an interesting challenge the prime minister now has because obviously we have to remember with any of these changes they have to be voted oi'i. these changes they have to be voted on. so the papers are speculating that those rules are going to have a very ha rd that those rules are going to have a very hard time when the growth of the house of commons because the explanation as simon points out, there's some nuances and interesting elements of this. when people look at the case numbers that can't understand why the decision has been made. when we look at the pressures of the nhs you start to wonder about what's in these areas and actually is there more about how hospitals can cope rather than strictly speaking the levels of infection there are at the moment. it's a very fine balance the government and looking at and the reason the rules are relaxed in the summer is for case numbers were going down but also the nhs was not as under as

much pressure where as every year we always there but the winter crisis and more concerns about being more sick in the winter with their doors closed, let's ventilation, accidents happening and this is going to be really high on the government agenda about whether the nhs can cope when it's going to be under extreme pressure. the village in particular question here kent commits three cases in the past week and it‘s in tier 3, but as you were pointing out it‘s those pressure points, they‘re looking at lots of different aspects. as joe looking at lots of different aspects. asjoe was saying, there we re aspects. asjoe was saying, there were talk about whether this will be voted through next week. these measures and the prime minister potentially facing a mutiny of up to 70 tory mps after the unveiling of this particular tier structure. is a lot of anger and pushback, and a

bigger picture is making me think maybe in march or april when we had lockdown altogether and there said what‘s going on, now it‘s so complex. we had tears were for this lockdown, we‘ve gone back to new tea rs lockdown, we‘ve gone back to new tears that they are different than what they were before, and individual areas are kind of pushing back and saying why are we here? the idea, i mean i feel forthem. it‘s a tough break that the quiet village, presumably and they have not gotten any issues, but they‘ve been swept up any issues, but they‘ve been swept up in the area. now the idea that the government could pinpoint different tiny little localities, that really would be something. and i suspect we would be even more furious with some of the reasoning behind it. boris johnson furious with some of the reasoning behind it. borisjohnson has said he‘s done these new tier systems, it brea ks he‘s done these new tier systems, it breaks his heart, he does not wish to do it, of course there‘s going to bea to do it, of course there‘s going to be a scientific basis as well which is backing it up. and we got to

accept it despite how would we make it different levels we are in this for quite a while, i think we‘re looking at maybe spring we‘re going to have vaccines, which may talk about ina to have vaccines, which may talk about in a moment which might start to change the picture. go put great pressure on the nhs as well. i‘ve had my flu jab this year which i had not hadn‘t previous years i thought imight as not hadn‘t previous years i thought i might as well get myself sorted. so the government may well have a problem or boris johnson so the government may well have a problem or borisjohnson may have a problem, i think of us want to state if it gets past these new tears will come in on wednesday. will do for getting your flu jab because come in on wednesday. will do for getting yourflu jab because i come in on wednesday. will do for getting your flu jab because i was trying to get one from altus and i just cannot get hold of one. that‘s all. so well done, will have to pick your brain on how you did that. the yorkshire post, talking about how borisjohnson was saying this breaks his heart to do this, they were supposed to give a house number ten is on the defensive. and also focusing in on how chatfield city region mayor is saying they were

concerned with the lack of consultation with local leaders, it‘s interesting we are back at this again. i think seven has touched upon an interesting point, this idea of trying to localise things, there's been this challenge that if you go forjust a fundamental blanket lucked there's parts of the economy, parts of the country that don't need such harsh restrictions. the problem is by bringing up the country, then what happens is people don't understand the logic being applied as clearly as very difficult, sensitive come would like to put my trust in the fact that there are people who have paid more money than i have and know for more about these things than i do. i'm hoping these people know what they are doing. we have to eventually put our trust in somebody, and interesting point that he's making is essentially there just has not been enough local consultation, we saw what happened last time with the regions that were being hit in the

arguments that started very publicly with the greater manchester mayor andy burnham. a lot of that has been financially driven because of the challenges and pressures that put on locally. for people to then not be given adequate financial compensation for what's going on. and it appears that i don't know whether the government had been burned by that, whether they dropped the ball, with the actually feel they have done some work but perhaps is not enough of the mayors, which rememberas is not enough of the mayors, which remember as well that there are elections looming and the heated discussion about labour regions and metro mayors, and the government being conservative, those tensions willjust being conservative, those tensions will just increase and being conservative, those tensions willjust increase and we need everyone to be working together. quite likely not enough time around a virtual table given that's all they can do these days, and more timely throughput in command i think that's what needs to be done. the

only good bit of news out this front page is this actually a small firm, and events company based in leeds that are usually involved in glastonbury is also the british grand prix, and they've been working with the nhs, we've heard stories re ce ntly with the nhs, we've heard stories recently a very large contracts and big firms and not appropriate things happening. this is a great story of a company that's of events firm and have great expense of moving lots of people around, traffic management systems are big events of their helping set up local vaccine centers which i think is a nice story to see a small business that's probably really suffering diversifying its operation to help the efforts which i think it's great news. letts and coronavirus in a positive note, thanks for picking up on that. a political story, and a few weeks ago i felt like every night there was

somebody in downing street resigning roughly at this time while i was on shift. but now the times, we‘ve got a new number ten chief of staff following the walking out of dominic cummings and a resignation or not resignation, whatever you want to call it. yet put the paper describes as clean skin, that‘s a bit of a slang term isn‘t it was yellow i interpreted that to be something like he has not got any baggage. it may be something more than that, and sometimes they find baggage that we did not know about but on the surface most of the commentators are saying this is a better point, he seems like a moral person, he seems like he‘s a great experience whether it‘s being in the civil service under alastair darling and george 0sborne, there‘s a lovely quote from him in 2008 from the financial crisis were he said, i‘m paraphrasing, but we realised we

we re paraphrasing, but we realised we were dealing with some quite significant issues. i thought, yeah, we certainly were in 2008. to get the impression that he‘s very much about soothing issues aboutjoining people together, about finding solutions. i can‘t pronounce the name, it‘s a strategic agency. if you look at their website there‘s some serious big hitters. sort of slightly to me you can‘t tell them much about the organisation, but clearly some very bright people. him coming in he‘s small p political. he‘s not coming with that political baggage behind them, and of a cliche but a safe pair of hands, and it sta rts but a safe pair of hands, and it starts to change, the dynamic around borisjohnson from starts to change, the dynamic around boris johnson from trouble with journalists and vote leave, very much surrounding him. this man does not have that, so he‘s coming in is a very professional and works its

investment banking, he‘s had a range of different roles, is he the kind of different roles, is he the kind of think of this guy could be pretty good. we don‘t have much time to but wa nt to good. we don‘t have much time to but want to pick up on one more paper but you are, you know borisjohnson can be worked with them closely when he was mayor. is dan the man, i can‘t believe i said that,... he was mayor. is dan the man, i can't believe i said that,... it had to happen. i know dan and i would say that fundamentally a surprise appointment, not one of the names in the frame. but there's a real need for the pressure of the country is under that someone understands finance and civil services really important right now. the challenge that borisjohnson has got is his god, as he spoke earlier, and challenge mixes mps to felt they could not get to downing street. there were not getting heard were relations with the wider party were not brilliant and so actually the big move now is to see what happens next, and who else is appointed to

ensure that the work with mp5 who are not necessarily particularly happy with how this administration has gone so far and what's going to happen there. that's the really crucial that, i think it would to a greatjob can crucial that, i think it would to a great job can be crucial that, i think it would to a greatjob can be will be the sort of steady hand that the premise or needs but because of their appointments now will be the ones to watch because that's where you see whether this ship gets studied or whether this ship gets studied or whether you start to see big groups of mps that don't help you when you got legislation to go through. with the majority you should be able to have a steady ship so there's a lot of work to do. could you get your perspective on that, did not realise you knew him. on the paper still talking about diego moreira donna, the legend footballer. —— maradona. this was the thing with diego

maradona, you cannot have a team just made out of one—man but he was the one, he could take mediocre teams, and because of the immense skill and ability he had he would allow, whether it‘s argentina or napa lead to actually win titles. the pictures remind me of princess diana. it‘s an idol, they have lost him and, she had a complex life, he had lots of highs, as well as some lows. he broke my heart when he did that hand of god at the goal, but as we spoken, he scored a fabulous goal. very complex but sometimes our idols are. they are not perfect in every way. your are being broken at the head of guard to the back god, that kind of pictures it perfectly. had to look harder, i did not get it straightaway. it‘s very subtle and witty. as a coffin and i think the

undertaker in my head is peter shelton who is putting a wreath down as his hand comes out of the coffin i presume is diego‘s and he knocks it away. he gets a goal with his wreath which is probably slightly over interpreting it.|j wreath which is probably slightly over interpreting it. i think that's a lovely way, i think we will take your over interpretation and i don‘t think we can beat that. we will never think we can beat that. we will never know, will be? of course it well. thank you both so much as a lwa ys well. thank you both so much as always for another great paper of your beloved to spend the evening with you. thank you so much. and as a lwa ys with you. thank you so much. and as always thank you to our viewers as well for joining always thank you to our viewers as well forjoining us, always thank you to our viewers as well for joining us, and always thank you to our viewers as well forjoining us, and he comments that a hashtag on social media is bpc papers. —— the bbc. hello, i‘m marc edwards and this is sport today,

live from the bbc sport centre. will this work to just a footballing icon diego maradona upon his death yesterday at the age of 60, his former side were in action in the republic tonight, paid a special tribute to the player who broke the world transfer record of the time to join the italian club. 12 titles at the club, something natalie had never done before or since. all the players wore his iconic number 10 jersey before their win against croatia‘s hnk rijeka. maradona led napoli to the only 2 serie a titles in their history — who are planning to rename their stadium after the forward. gary linacre scored the england goal that matches been sharing his memories of the man. there was a diego, and there was maradona. the on—field freedom that you could see the was at his happiest was on the

field of play and obviously had his troubles off the pitch. his addictions etc. which was kind of the tragic side of it. many geniuses are flawed, and perhaps without that element to his personality which of the character we would not have seen the character we would not have seen the greatness we saw on the field. for me there will be, certainly one of the greatest players of all time. if not the greatest player. i was impossible to compare people from different eras, we should just enjoy them for what they are but he has to be up there, no question about it. i spent three days with him is filming iti spent three days with him is filming it i reimport notes areas, and most extreme every days. very difficult to describe what it‘s like being diego maradona, but i got a little glimmer of that, a little inkling. the door was opened a little bit to his life style. extraordinary. hundreds of people around him. treat

it like he was the messiah. which at least in football, he was. but he is so revered in argentina that there were hundreds of people everywhere you went with him, it was madness. i think we should remember his greatness, how wonderful he was with a football, how much joy he‘s given to so many fans all over the world, notjust in argentina. obviously it‘s slightly bittersweet with england fans, and i understand that. i was participating in that game, but that second goal — perhaps that‘s how we should remember him. because it was truly impossible what he did. and it was extraordinary. on to the british clubs in action tonight, and celtic have been knocked out of the europa league with two group games still to play after losing 4—1 to sparta prague. celtic had taken the lead early in the first half through a goal from 0dsonne eduoard, but sparta hit back to condemn the scottish champions to a heavy defeat, leaving them bottom of their group — and increasing

the pressure on manager neil lennon. rangers let slip a two—goal lead to draw 2—2 with benfica at ibrox. kemar roofe with the second goal for steven gerrard‘s side. but two goals in three minutes from benfica saw them earn a point. both teams stayed level on points at the top of the group. a dramatic finish in portugal for leicester. after conceding in the 90th minute, jamie vardy then scored a 95th minute equaliser against braga to make it 3—3 and send the foxes into the knockout stages. tottenham hotspur moved a step closer to the knock—out stages with an easy 4—0 win over ludogarets. harry winks with the pick of the goals — an outrageous 50—yard lob. for his first goal in 22 months, he later admitted, he was trying to cross the ball. new signing carlos vinicius also opened his account for spurs. after being sent off in the premier league last weekend —

arsenal record signing nicholas pepe went some way to make up for it by scoring the opening goal in their 3—0 win at molde. which sees them qualify for the knockout stages. and arsenal‘s next europa league game at home to rapid vienna a week today is set to have 2,000 fans in attendance at the emirates following the announcement over the new coronavirus tiers today. london, along with liverpool, is in tier 2 — meaning liverpool and everton can welcome back fans under strict covid guidelines. but for clubs in tier 3, they will have to wait until local restrictions are eased. indoor sports can also let in fans, but half the numbers allowed for outdoor. the uk snooker championship is taking place in milton keynes — that‘s tier two. 0rganisers could let in a thousand for the last few days next week, but they are still to make a decision on that. the reigning champion, ding jun—hui, who came through his first round match today against jamie cu rtis—barrett doesn‘t think it is a good idea. i have no chance to pull

out of tournaments, so i have to go for it. but i don‘t have concentration on the table with somebody coughing behind me or whatever happens. i will think about something else, not playing snooker. fans will also be back at twickenham on 6 december for england‘s final match in the autumn nations cup. the rfu have announced they‘ll donate 400 of the 2,000 available tickets to nhs workers. ahead of that, england play wales this weekend, and fly half george ford returns to the starting 15. he made his comeback from injury off the bench in the win against ireland last week. and that‘s all the sport for now. we‘ll see you soon, bye—bye. hello there. if you need to head out on the roads on friday morning, fog could cause i—2 problems, certainly some poor visibility and places

particular the across parts of england and wales. the fog slow to clear through the day and it will feel cold out there. two weather fronts, one to the northwest, one to the south bringing some cloud and patchy rain. but in between, very light winds, temperatures have been dropping, it‘s going to be a very cold start to friday morning. widely around freezing, some spots below and we will also see some fog. indeed, some freezing fog across parts of england into east wales as well. these are the areas most likely to be affected. slightly different across the far southeast, here it‘s more likely cloud bringing the odd spot of rain. some early sunshine through wales, parts of northern england, and then for northern ireland and scotland, it‘s a slightly different story again. this band of clouds and weather friend bringing some outbreaks of very patchy rain, and that band of cloud with those bits and pieces of rain not moving far at all through the day. the fog struggling to shift as well

across those parts of england and wales starting off so murky. i think in many places, it willjust linger as low cloud all day long. a bit of rain creeping in towards the english channel coasts. temperatures, if you stick with fog all day long, it maybe just 3—4 degrees. even in some brightness, 8—9 the best we can expect. and then through friday night the fog will once again reform with a lot of low cloud and some spots of rain and drizzle working northwards across england and wales. lowest of which is likely to be across the far north of england, also southeast scotland — some spots here will see a frost because of clear skies overhead. and there will be a slice of sunshine for some on saturday. particularly across scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well. but for england and wales a lot of cloud, some misty, murky conditions. temperatures just a little bit higher though it down towards the south, ii—i2, possibly 13 degrees. the milder airjust trying to sneak its way in. now for the second half of the weekend, high—pressure remains in charge — this frontal system up to the far north west mightjust bring a little bit of rain in northern and northwestern scotland. otherwise a lot of drier whether, but again a lot of cloudy weather

and any fog for the morning will struggle to clear during the day, and those temperatures for most of us in single digits, at best around 10 degrees.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. fans line the streets of buenos aires to say goodbye to football hero diego maradona, on the way to the cemetery where he has been buried next to his parents. and teams across the europa league stay silent to honour the legendary argentine player. donald trump says he will leave the white house if the electoral college certifiesjoe biden as the election winner. even as he continues to deny the reality of his defeat. ethiopian refugees mass on the border with sudan as the government launches its final offensive