important to keep these gyms open. joshua stepped in after the government left boxing out of a £300 million rescue package for cash—strapped sports hit by the pandemic last month. we just want to raise the eyebrows of people in power to somehow think in the future, if there is ever an opportunity to invest in sports again, to try and include boxing. you know, 300 million is a substantial amount. even £3,000 to a boxing gym makes a massive difference. without grassroots, there is no tyson fury, there is no anthonyjoshua. the news was welcomed here at the sting like a bee initiative near salford, which tries to tackle anti—social behaviour through boxing, and, like many gyms, is in a deprived area. especially, like, now, because everyone is inside cos of coronavirus, lots of people are staying inside and just watching the tv and playing computer games. you need to stay healthy

and keep active. boxing is a massive part of the community and it is needed. what anthonyjoshua is doing there is amazing, to be fair. england boxing are on their knees. a lot of the money doesn't necessarily filter down to these gyms. joshua's next target is this man, fellow british heavyweight champion tyson fury, as long as a defining unification mega—fight can be agreed for next summer. me and him, competitor to competitor, it is massive. but for the world, a boxing show that will be one of the biggest events in the uk since the world cup, it is going to boost the economy, boost the morale of the people. you know, let's get behind boxing. how confident are you it will happen next year? i am certain, i'm keen and ready. we can do it back here at finchley if we have to! i want to be the undisputed heavyweight champion, that's legacy. but whatever happens next year, joshua will hope he has already helped others to follow in his footsteps, in a sport he is close to conquering. dan roan, bbc news. 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 the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are geraldine scott — westminster correspondent at the yorkshire post—and madeline grant — deputy comment editor from the daily telegraph. tomorrow's front pages starting with the financial times leads on france reopening the border to lorry drivers currently stuck in kent, providing they have a negative covid test result the metro front page centres on a picture of the tailbacked lorries trying to leave the uk, saying there is ‘no room at the inn‘ for the drivers this festive season. the sun also leads with a festive pun, calling the covid border crisis a ‘kick in the baubles‘, as well as warning that further areas in the uk could be moved to tier 4. the guardian focuses on gp's concerns about the roll—out of the coronavirus vaccine ,

with over half of hospitals in the country still to receive supplies whilst concerns grow about the new covid variant. and the telegraph focuses on the potential announcement that tier 4 areas could be widened on boxing day. so let's begin... good evening to you both. we will start with the financial times. the financial times of if they decided not to in this competition of headlines. in a currently serious headline. geraldine, iwould imagine a factual headline like that might actually be quite useful to a lot of the people we've been speaking to this evening, travels, haulers, still very confused what was going to happen. we can sit here and laugh at the pun headlines as kind of industry people but for people that are stuck here and cannot get home from a feminist but if of christmas,

it's really serious. 7000 lorries waiting to cross, a massive backlog in the next few days. we got to get over the border and get them home. in the next few days. we got to get over the border and get them homeli completely agree with that. all great for us to sit here injoke but a truly nightmare situation with the never—ending queue from hell two days before christmas. there's reports that charities are having to intervene to bring people supplies. ina way intervene to bring people supplies. in a way that's why this news is partly such a positive development, because crucially the french officials have agreed that they will acce pt officials have agreed that they will accept notjust officials have agreed that they will accept not just the officials have agreed that they will accept notjust the pcr officials have agreed that they will accept not just the pcr test officials have agreed that they will accept notjust the pcr test but officials have agreed that they will accept not just the pcr test but a lateral flow test that will give results pretty much instantaneously which means that we are dealing with queues of that length you have to be clearing them as quickly as possible, set bows pretty well. we know that laurie drivers are pretty tough people normally. you possess that huge amount of hours alone in the road option sleeping in their calves, but if they are seeing the situation is difficult we really do know it's difficult. i want to

reflect on this. the british government had no choice but to legally say we have this new variant. france might have thought it had no choice just to stop things oi’ it had no choice just to stop things or 48 hours while it worked out the new border. you can see, let's go back to madeline, both governments acting as they had to go and yet there was still this crisis. i'm not convinced that both governments necessarily did act as they had to. i think that the french in rejecting this with a truly exceptional reaction to events which we haven't seen much during the pandemic around the world even when people have been banning passenger travel. they've been letting experts still go through and for the supply chains to keep running. so i'm not convinced that was entirely proportionate in reaction to the situation. an overreaction do you think? yes. generally hard to tell how much of government action in general is deliberate with very often more

likely to be incompetent or panic then some kind of conspiracy because people are being presented with these extra ordinary scenarios coming up with solutions to them. but i think it was an overreaction if you consider that countries like italy kept on exporting it when they we re italy kept on exporting it when they were considered to be the epicentre of the global pandemic earlier in the year. i do think that stopping this was a step too far. governments, particularly on the british government was always accused of under reacting. he could see perhaps why a government, be at this time the french government, might think they want to air on the side of overreacting. might it be quite hard to find that line with the i do think it's been an overreaction, but as you say accurately understand why. we talk a lot about how are our governments might have been too slow in chasing its tail with a reaction to covid. notjust our government convert governments around the world that have been caught off guard by

surprise and left wanting. you can understand why especially when they we re understand why especially when they were politicians going on tv saying how avirulent the strain of the virus is, how much more transmissible it is, how serious it is and we can't really expect other governments ago, oh no, that's ok. we don't need to worry about it. it's caused massive problems and it really is key that we get these lateral flow test on the ground. as the pictures tonight with nhs workers arriving in kent and testing them to get them home. it's an overreaction but i actively think you can see why it happened. governments don't want to be left wanting again. what took the metro which is has windows headlines that says no room at the end. we look at this picture you might think it was the no—deal brexit in eight, nine, ten days' time. it's extraordinary that there's two potential crises in the same place within a week or ten days. it's extraordinary. no one

could have predicted the impact of the pandemic and the unexpected closure of the border between england and france. but i think yes, the one thing that we can certainly reject is the fact that these negotiations with the eu would continue on until the very final hour because that's what they do every single time. but i think as you say the double whammy of those two things happening side by side presents this truly extraordinary situation that needs to be remedied as soon as possible. as shirley was saying earlier the utterances that politicians make have an immediate real—world impact, and this isjust one example of how crucial it is that these things get resolved because many, many millions of lives depend on them. you are a westminster correspondent see you know it's going on in the corridors of power. were plans of no deal in dover? were a actually useful in the last few days of sorting out with

the structure go? i think they have must have been. if you been planning for this eventuality not caused by the court of importers closing then you have some things you can step up quite quickly. we knew that plaintive been in place and other departments have been stepping up their preparedness for this almost triple threat match their calling sometimes was arbitrable threats in yorkshire anyway of flooding, coronavirus and a no—deal brexit elsewhere. so it can't really have been a surprise i don't think. the plans were supposed to be in place, but the reports we have heard of the wellness facilities for that lori drivers, the toilets and food and essential things that you need, have not been good and you would hope that if the plans are in place that would have been a lot better. i don't know, maybe we will see it as a practice run and see us all again inafew a practice run and see us all again in a few days' time. but to go back to the idea of brexit deadlines.

i've been the idiot i assume, in the studio where every time i say once the deadline some will tell me it's next monday, next sunday, i write it down and that is the deadline, and thenit down and that is the deadline, and then it passes and often it passes and no one says anything and i feel too embarrassed to say, was it that the deadline? so i'm now thinking well, right, the mep told us the deadline was sunday for ratification, it's now tuesday. i'm beginning to think is the deadline actually the moment britain leaves at the end of the transition period iipm at the end of the transition period 11pm on the 31st or a minute beforehand? i think that is the real deadline and i think you speak for a lot of, notjust deadline and i think you speak for a lot of, not just wearyjournalists but the general population. we seem to be living in a kind of alternate universe where politicians say one thing we hear about these deadlines and these firm dates were something will have been settled and then there's a bit more obvious kitchen and smoke and mirrors, and a new

deadline has emerged. people get pretty fatigued with that. but at the same time it's generally how it negotiations with the eu have always tended to operate. i suppose the more you follow them the more you begin to mistrust every utterance that comes out of blips of any eu or british official ever. for me, for obeying those deadlines, really. jody and you will know, you work at westminster. which deadlines you trust? i don't trust any of them. if we brought these as that's my work but it would be on the phone pretty quickly. if you're using labels brexiteer and remainer, whichever side of the fence you are on i don't think the eu comes out well, our government comes out well doesn't. it does not plate policy and statecraft in a good light. boris johnson i guess feels like he's going to come out of this having snatched ideal from the jaws of

defeat or he's going to be able to pin it on the eu, but i don't really think that either side this is a good luck and it's not playing around. music of the sun, the small headlight is muted bug on the rampage and then... pictures of borisjohnson rampage and then... pictures of boris johnson and emmanuel macron. jolting, sorry can we did a double go at the moment. is that the right way to describe this? is probably not helpful in diplomacy terms can but i think there's been some pushback from the eu that said things need to change. this cannot go on for another 24 hours and it's been forced to bend a little and make sure that things get moving. there are, i think, they are getting 50 countries to impose some kind of

travel ban and drawing up a protocol that cannot grow on forever. i don't think the terminology used is going to necessarily help things, but i'm not really sure that was the aim either. you did say the french might have, but politely, it might‘ve said that they overreacted. would you use the same words that the sun is using? without somehow involved in negotiations article that i would not but since i'm not i think yet there was a bit of a covidiot thing to do for sure. as i mentioned before the fact that they have taken is very harsh line with crucial supply chains and freight in a way that really has not happened at all globally from the pandemic from passenger bands are one thing that's happened all over the place, we seen how the list can fluctuate in change of the countries we are allowed to visit, we get that but i think they we nt visit, we get that but i think they went one step too far and can you know, if some of the british officials are to be believed on this

the idea was to give britain a taste of what a no deal might look like us that they would exceed faster to serve the demands on fisheries and other things. i think the label does fit on this occasion. you believe was a taste of no deal delta by paris? i don't think about the palace in sakho i think it's more driven by incompetence than some kind of conspiracy. but it certainly true that emmanuel macron has taken an incredibly stubborn and alternate view of britain's case and the demands that are being made compared to many other eu states to the point of as shielding mentioned something of as shielding mentioned something ofa of as shielding mentioned something of a reprimand from the eu higher authority today. basically saying this can't go on much longer. something perhaps incurring the wrath of some fellow member states as well. let's move to the daily telegraph. and where you might not

have had a chance to read the story soi have had a chance to read the story so i will give the headline or perhaps first paragraph or so. tier 4to be perhaps first paragraph or so. tier 4 to be widened on boxing day. clearly that is something that eve ryo ne clearly that is something that everyone in britain will come it will affect everyone's life. as the first paragraph, to get everyone up to speed, a swathe of areas hit by a surge in covert rates are likely to be placed into a chairfrom boxing day, ministers will announce today. it's worth saying the other papers we have that's mentioned in the sun on its front page do what they don't have this and it's also mentioned in the daily mail. says new tier 4 fears for boxing day. really not an announcement. but geraldine, the three national newspapers have seen fit to put versions of the story on the front page so that someone is talking and that this is the expectation. it essentially means lockdown to be widened. expectation. it essentially means lockdown to be widenedlj expectation. it essentially means lockdown to be widened. i was surprised? we spent the last few days hearing them tell us that this new strain is everywhere. so the

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