this is bbc news, the headlines: borisjohnson attempts to see off a parliamentary rebellion on his new coronavirus restrictions, by telling

backbenchers the tiers could end in february. ethiopia's military claims victory saying it's in control of the regional capital of tigray, anti—government forces say they'll fight on. the number of covid hospital patients hits a new record high in the united states. peak rail fares should be suspended over christmas in the uk to avoid travel "chaos", according to the labour party. dave prowse — the british actor who found international fame as the man behind the mask of darth vader in the original star wars trilogy — has died. good morning. hello and welcome to our look at what's in the sunday papers, with me are the sunday times journalist

katherine forster and the political commentatorjames millar. let's have a look at this morning's front page. starting with the sunday times which headlines borisjohnson‘s letter to tory mps, as he promises to reform his new stricter tier system before christmas. the pms‘ promise — the express also leads on the pm's concessions to his party to see off a lockdown vote rebellion and get his tougher new tier system through the commons on tuesday. the sunday telegraph leads on the prime minister's attempt to reassure mps the new tiers system could end in nine weeks. the observer, too, writes of the growing tory rebellion — as conservative mps accuse the government of exaggerating problems in the nhs in an attempt to win support. borisjohnson makes his plea in the mail on sunday — asking britons to not ‘blow it‘ by flouting the rules of his controversial system of restrictions. meanwhile — an exclusive for the sunday mirror —

as their defence editor tracks down a british man who persuaded dozens of people to join isis in syria. so let's begin. sunday times, james, johnson in retreat as tories revolt over tears rocks number ten, how much danger do you think there is that the government could lose this vote on tuesday? none whatsoever, because the labour party will support what the labour party will support what the government is going to do, but it's not a good look for a tory prime minister to be relying on labour votes. it is not a good vote there at luke —— it is not a good look for a tory pm to see the headline he is in retreat. not a great look for number ten, really. it speaks to an ongoing problem throughout this pandemic for this administration, which are leased

perceived lack of leadership and i think probably that is a perception because there is a lack of strong leadership, if they can't convince their own mps of the merits to switch to tears from the middle of the week, how on earth can they hope to persuade the general public to go along with it. it is a real problem for number ten, i think. he has promised a sunset clause, meaning there is an end date of february the 3rd, katherine, how much of a treat is that, really? the likelihood is february where they may well though to extend the restrictions into much, he has also given away in that he is saying now come december, 19th, people will be moved potentially down from higher

tiers into tiers if possible. we have the christmas referral, to some extent. he is giving... brexit is still trundling along. now it is between those who think save lives at all costs, protect the nhs, save lives, get the vaccine in the spring, hunker down for now and those who are understandably extremely worried about the economic consequences and the health consequences and the health consequences of consequences and the health consequences of this continuing restrictions which are hammering and decimating businesses and putting huge financial and emotional strain oi'i huge financial and emotional strain on many people who have been living in the north of england many months of very difficult conditions. james, the observer front page, james, the observerfront page, more an angry tory mps turning on michael gove, they say, according to various

accou nts gove, they say, according to various accounts in the papers has been quite hard line. he is saying that london should have been tier 3. they have also got a picture of a nurse preparing to administer the vaccine oi’ preparing to administer the vaccine or at least training in the administering of a vaccine, which is administering of a vaccine, which is a site that we all want to see. the famous light at the end of the tunnel. yes, and that might speak to what is going on in a broader picture. it is interesting that, as ever, there is lots of internal tory fighting and some papers are gunning for the prime minister, some are gunning for michael gove, they are clearly the two big figures at the top of this briefing against each other. i think it is interesting, michael gove said we've had enough of experts and we now and his hospitals will be overwhelmed, they don't believe him. funny that! when you play around with concept of truth it comes back to bite you. the vaccination picture is really interesting because there is a lot of talk of reopening the nightingale

hospitals or in some cases just opening them for the first time. these are a massive basis which would be very useful if you could form a massive queue of people outside waiting to get a vaccination, that could come in handy. i wonder what might be going on there. very much a hopeful picture because it speaks to what is going on, the and it's not as in sight, we have some rough idea that there might be an end to this and so people are restless and don't want to necessarily be subject to very strict rules if there is in and around the corner, and that is a difficult issue for the government to deal with. they haven't dealt with the difficult issues u nfortu nately with the difficult issues unfortunately throughout this pandemic critically well. the mail on sunday talking that michael gove wanted london in tier 3, jobs could be lost, 500,000 jobs

could be lost if he got his wish to shut london. different ministers and newcomer, softer, some hardline on how draconian the tier restrictions should be. that is right. the mail had gone very big on going. they talk about at the beginning of the pandemic, people weren't sure what his position was, now he is very firmly pushing for strict measures. he was saying london must be in tier 3, absolutely no question. boris johnson basically at the end said, no, london is in tier 2. i don't suppose it matters if he, that is what i think. but it is interesting, isn't it? the estimates were that half a millionjobs in london could

go if it was in tier 3 rather than in tier2, which go if it was in tier 3 rather than in tier 2, which is enormous. but of course, again, 60 million people in the north of england, cities like manchester have been dealing with this for a very, very long time and ido this for a very, very long time and i do not generate the headlines of the attention in the same way, speaking as a disgruntled northerner, 0k, speaking as a disgruntled northerner, ok, i live in london, their sala scheme was only extended when the previous lockdown came in across the country and london was affected —— across the country and london was affected — — marked across the country and london was affected —— marked the furlough scheme. one thing! scheme. one thing i think is significant and positive, they come in are saying they release the information saying they release the information saying the transparent about what data, what the data suggest, when restrictions will be, what the criteria is. people want to understand. at this level, you go into this tier and that is applied uniformly, i think people would

think fair enough. people want to understand, i need transparency which i think it's been fairly lacking. the sunday people, you've already mentioned it, mps pleading for the nightingale hospitals to be opened oi’ nightingale hospitals to be opened or to be used. one of the problem is staffing in the nhs. that is not enough staff. that is not a lot to this front—page and yet there is at the same time. the mill story involved them switching teachers and we switch to the hospitals where we are talking about nurses and the majority of them are women and i thought that was quite interesting contrast. it's places like stoke, nottingham hospitals are at capacity. why have we been in lockdown for a month? what is the government been doing if we are coming to the end of lockdown in the hospitals are overwhelmed? surely the whole point of lockdown was to use that time to prepare and that does not seem have happened.

why weren't they recruiting nurses and staff at the last month, trying to find people to facility needs that apparently we now have an hospitals? there's not a lot to it, but it raises a lot of questions, i think. catherine, army spies to take on anti—vaxxers militants? they have mobilised a unit which has been renowned for assisting operations against al-qaeda and the taliban to counter online propaganda against vaccines. once we have these vaccines, that is going to be the next battle. whether people actually will take the vaccines, will have the injection. that is right, indications now that over a third of people are uncertain or have already decided, thanks very much, no thanks, i will not have it. that is very serious implications of getting a grip on the pandemic and getting a grip on the pandemic and getting back to any sort of normal

if large numbers of people will not have it. the government are very sensibly, i think, have it. the government are very sensibly, ithink, brought in have it. the government are very sensibly, i think, brought in this elite information unit from the army to get into what is going on online, all these anti—vaxxers group, all this propaganda, information saying this propaganda, information saying this is dangerous, don't have it. this really needs crackdown on because people will have to have the jab. it is all happen very, very fa st jab. it is all happen very, very fast and we have had terrible health injustices that have happened before, but these are being tested. people need to be persuaded to take them. the human cost on mental health highlighted by jodie whittaker, the doctor whose star, talking about her anxiety during lockdown —— doctor who staff.

concerned about giving her loved ones coronavirus. all of this talk of tears and vaccines, the mental—health side of it is still very important to and analyse. yes, different sort of doctor, nice touch that she has doctor two. it is something a lot of people will identify with, and mental health cost to this, there was already is, we will not know the full extent of this until weeks or months or years even. it is inevitable that this has been utterly unsettling year to say the least. a lot of people, everybody has been anxious to a greater or lesser degree. it will be interesting to see, unfortunately, how this plays out in the future, the full mental health because i think it's yet to be revealed.

katherine, the culture secretary talking about the crown, the netflix series, as many others have said in the last three days, its portrayal of what goes on in the royal family has, some would say, be rather extreme, there should be a health warning at the beginning underlining this is fiction, this is drama, this is made up, rather than fact. do we need that sort of health warning before a show like that? i think people do realise that it is fiction to some extent, but i think it is incredibly problematic there is because they crown previously was all quite historical, now they are going into fairly recent events and most of the people diane gale diana —— magnate of the people except diana still alive. i feel a bit queasy because what it means for harry and william.

this is very, very painful surely. also of course for charles and camilla and the royal family more broadly are very unhappy because it is not making those people looked very good typically. prince charles is apparently and the duchess of, has had death threats. i must admit i watch it, i have never watched the crown before, i do think this was foreseeable and they are playing with fairly recent real events and there is danger in that. james, you are shaking your head, do not think there should be a health warning christmas i take all of the points. iam not christmas i take all of the points. i am not aware of anybody who is actually confuse the crown with real life, there is a coronavirus pandemic and everything the culture sector is in charge of, theatre, tvs , sector is in charge of, theatre, tvs, sport, is going down the

toilet. had he not got anything better to do than respond to anything that i do not think it is anything that i do not think it is an issue? they need help to get through the next three months, i cannot believe this is in his inbox, anywhere near the top of it. i think it is outrageous. it may not be an issue but it is an interesting talking point. i have watched the whole series, isn't one of the issue they use a lot of news commentary, a lot of clips from news brokers, a lot of actual archive? to some extent, there is a bit of blurring going on. maybe i am wrong, i have been unlocked and so i've not met many people but i'm not aware of anybody who has watched the crown and thought it was real life. i give people enough credit to be able to tell the difference. i do not watch it, is not something at the beginning of it? you don't watch it, not as a bit of a river way if you do not watch it, james. i was there, i remember it. i'm do not watch it, james. iwas there, i remember it. i'm not

aware of anybody has got mixed up andi aware of anybody has got mixed up and i think the culture secretary has a lot of things to be doing than this sort of stuff. katherine, come back to that briefly. i wasjust going to say that apparently more people have watched this now than actually watch the royal wedding in 1981, so it is a very large chunk of the british public who have seen this and they may know that it is largely fictitious but i think it will still colour some people's these unsightly it is waking up a lot of painful things for the royal family. the sunday express, staying with royal matters, the duchess of cambridge, does she need help with royal tempered tantrums? eight may bea royal tempered tantrums? eight may be a future star of the crown —— kate. it is going to be very boring series when she gets starring in it, ito

say. she plays the role game unbelievably well. this is a story spun out of absolutely nothing. i admired the journalists that a p pa re ntly admired the journalists that apparently asked about temper tantrums. she said yes, that is a ha rd tantrums. she said yes, that is a hard one. i'd also like to ask the experts myself. that is a brilliant royal answer, i think. experts myself. that is a brilliant royal answer, ithink. there experts myself. that is a brilliant royal answer, i think. there is no story. yet they have managed to spin a story out of it. i bow down to her ability to be completely but now and yet still apparently make... she has got three small children and she has been asked about how you deal with tantrums, and she has confessed to needing advice which i think is interesting wedding. you don't need to invest in heeding advice when you're with toddlers and tantrums. she is doing projects around in the yea rs she is doing projects around in the years and apparently learnt a lot since shejoined the years and apparently learnt a lot since she joined the role family that if you have a tough time in your first five years, that can

cause problems further down the line. apparently intensive project coming up, there's a lot in the pipeline. when it comes to royalty, she is playing it unbelievably well. katherine, going back to the crown princess margaret, diana and so on, i suppose from the royal family's point of view, buckingham palace, the queen, kate is a model professional royal. she is. this is making them accessible, look at me, i have kids, i know what it's like. i think it is great. i have to say i think problems when the children are young, wait until they are older. my child has been in dressing gown who has been trying to distract me through this. he is going to be in big trouble. the joys of parenthood! you have been a model professional

and ignoring all those distractions. thank you so much for both been with us thank you so much for both been with us and taking us through today's sunday papers. that's it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. i'mjohn watson. liverpool are top of the premier league this morning but could be overtaken by chelsea or tottenham, who face each other today. it was jurgen klopp's frustration after their draw at brighton that made the headlines. their match with brighton finished one all after a late penalty saw the points were shared. but an injury to james milner added to his irritation, which boiled over after the game as he became involved in a heated exchange with a reporter. having repeatedly spoken out against champions league clubs being made to play in the saturday lunchtime kick off as he feels it doesn't give players enough rest after playing on a wednesday.

i'm obviously silly enough to fall in that trap, now he has the headlines he wanted, and, but actually, it's like it is, really, i have no problem with saturday. wednesday, saturday's normalfor me, i'm long enough in the business. thank god they are good teams, they played always most of the time champions league and to play on saturday is no problem. but, some other things are problems. england are into the final of rugby union's autumn nations cup after beating wales by 2a points to 13 in lanelli. they'll play france in the final at twickenham next saturday — a match which should see 2,000 fans inside the stadium. england head coach eddiejones says his side is still improving. for us it's more a chance to get better again. we don't feel like we've played our best rugby yet, so it's our last game, it's our grand final of 2020, so we want to make sure we put on our best performance, want to make sure we put on a performance that lights up people's eyes and they sit there and they look at the team and

they want to be part of the team. it's a familiar story in f1 in bahrain, with lewis hamilton on pole for the 98th time. fresh from clinching a seventh world title two weeks ago in turkey, he set the pace in qualifying for the bahrain grand prix, ahead of teammate valtteri bottas and max verstappen. after all the hype and controversy, 54—year—old mike tyson's return to the boxing ring ended in a draw against royjones junior. the judges couldn't separate them, after their eight—round exhibition fight in los angeles, contested over shorter rounds of two minutes, but tyson looking in good shape. there's talk of a rematch — but our boxing pundit steve bunce thinks tyson will be going in a different direction. the rematch with royjones is not the next fight.

the next fight is going to take all of us back, all of us back in time. even if we were not born yet and some of us were ringside then, you remember the night, the mgm, las vegas, mike tyson biting down and taking a lump out of evander holyfield's ear and spitting it on the floor and then being disqualified and then being fined $3 million. and then being thrown out of boxing for three years. —— then disqualified for two years. that is the next fight. that's all the sport for now. hello there. it's quiet out there, but it is rather grey, it's been a drab start to our sunday morning and you can see this is a fairly typical weather watcher picture. hopefully the mist will lift, but i'm not sure the cloud is going to break up that much. best of any bright, sunny spells likely to be reserved for north—east scotland after a chilly start here and perhaps brightening up across wales and south—west england. but the cloud thick enough for the odd spot or two

of drizzle at times. it stays pretty murky for much of the afternoon, but at least with light winds, it is going to stay pretty mild. temperatures peaking at 6 to 11 degrees, perhaps 13 in the far south—west. now through the night tonight, the cloud stays with us, but we'll see some rain and the wind start to strengthen as that wet weather pushes into the far north—west. so temperatures are going to hold up quite widely across the country. but, yes, there's going to be some rain first thing on monday morning. so that weather front continues to move in from the north—west, we'll gradually start to see the wind direction changing as well to a cooler source, the breeze picking up with the rain. the heaviest of the rain looks likely to be across scotland, northern ireland, north—west england and wales, as it pushes its way through the midlands down into central and southern england it should weaken off substantially. bright and breezy following on behind, but a little bit cooler with around seven to eight degrees. but we should see highest values once again of 11 celsius. now, moving out of monday into tuesday, our weather front continues to sink its way south and then a northerly wind direction really starts to develop.

and that will bring a difference to the feel of the weather, particularly across the east. so with that wind running down through north sea a little bit on the chilly side on exposed coasts, and you could be waking up first thing in the morning across scotland and north—east england to an early morning frost. also, though, some lovely spells of sunshine across much of central and eastern england. yes, that wind will make it feel cooler on exposed coasts. the further west you go, the cloud thickens and perhaps it will stay largely dry and a little milder here with ten degrees along the east coast, we're looking at a high of six to eight. then further ahead, it looks likely that we could continue to see an unsettled theme developing and the northerly winds stays with us. so cooler for all.

this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. our top stories: uk prime minister, borisjohnson, attempts to see off a parliamentary rebellion on his new coronavirus restrictions, by telling backbenchers the tiers could end in february. having no vote on the regulations in january with a sunset in the february if that doesn't pass again, i think, is the right combination of accountability and transparency with taking the measures that the public need now. ethiopia's military claims victory, saying it's in control of the regional capital of tigray — anti—government forces say they'll fight on. the number of covid hospital patients hits a new record high in the united states. ethiopia's military claims victory, saying it's in control peak rail fares should be suspended over christmas in the uk