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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are former pensions minister baroness ros altmann, and the writer and broadcaster mihir bose. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. .. 125 billion dollars for the worlds biggest banks is the lead story for the financial times — it says investment banks across the world generated record fees as companies raced to raise cash in order to survive the pandemic. ‘a new chapter in our story‘ — the telegraph quote the prime minister who issues a rallying call to mps as they prepare to back brexit trade deal with the eu tomorrow. that deal — says the yorkshire post — is likely to get through both the hosue of commons and the lords

after the labour leader and conservative eurosceptics agree to support the bill. the express also say the bill is likely to be passed. they carry a pictrue of the prime minister who believes his government has done the impossible in securing a deal. a ‘horrendous choice‘ for our health workers — the guardian say hospital staff will soon have to choose who gets care and who doesn‘t as the nhs faces what they call ‘cataclysmic‘ pressure from coronavirus. amid the surge in cases across the uk and increasing hospital numbers the times says millions of people in england will hear they are to face tougher curbs in an annoucement by ministers tomorrow. and in the mirror a call from the front line — they say care home bosses are pleading for the vaccine, weeks after being promised it by the government. a lot to discuss. so let‘s begin. let‘s look at the times first of all. the headline. tier 4 areas extended after that record 53,000 cases. unsurprising

but i would imagine deeply depressing for anybody who picked up this newspaper in the morning and one of those areas that will now join london where i am in tier 4, ros. yes. i am in london too. we have been a tier for for a while. the top now is because of the surgeon cases come on the the top now is because of the surgeon cases come on the navy extending tier 4 across many more areas. “— extending tier 4 across many more areas. —— surge of cases. i hope not, but it may be that is considered necessary. 0bviously not, but it may be that is considered necessary. obviously we have to be really careful. but of course it is devastating for people who have really enjoyed being able to see others the social interaction thatis to see others the social interaction that is being curtailed in tier 4, they sort of fear of going out of your house and the older people would have been isolated and lower, who may now not be able to see loved ones, care home swing lockdown

again, there are a lot of side effects and of course even a london, where we fed tier 4 restrictions, we are sitting still a surge in cases of coronavirus despite that. are sitting still a surge in cases of coronavirus despite thatlj are sitting still a surge in cases of coronavirus despite that. i will still a point. you said to me earlier would be simpler to call tierfor a lockdown? earlier would be simpler to call tier for a lockdown? it would absolutely. — — tier for a lockdown? it would absolutely. —— the tier 4. this is another indication of where this government is constantly changing. of course the virus is mutating, new variants are coming out, that is true, but never the less, the government is reluctant now to use the word lockdown because we had initially when we had the lockdown come everybody understood what the lockdown was. tier 4, we are getting, is a lockdown. it would be much better for the government to say this is a lockdown because what it is causing is a lot of confusion for the people. what are they allowed to do? we have to live our lives after all. how are we allowed

to actually even see somebody as social distancing in the street, maybe have a walk with them or not, which tier, and the fact is if you rememberwhen the tier which tier, and the fact is if you remember when the tier arrangements command, the prime ministerand remember when the tier arrangements command, the prime minister and the minister said now we are going to concentrate on areas where the rate of infection is very high. that strategy seems to have been forgotten. it is now the almost entire english region will be under tier4, it entire english region will be under tier 4, it will be a lockdown let's face it. let's look at the sun newspaper. i think it does when the daily headline prize. essentially saying what we have been saying for the last few minutes was up saying for the last few minutes was up in saying for the last few minutes was upina saying for the last few minutes was up ina50 saying for the last few minutes was up in a 50 areas, the prime minister last night with deciding weather or not to extend the toughest loss to lancaster, the midlands and cumbria. this is a getting another national

lockdown almost. -- getting to be another. i guess what is in a name, like down itself would suggest you can go out at all in tier 4. you can still go see one of the person in tier 4. you can go for a walk. 0bviously tier 4. you can go for a walk. obviously you are being discouraged from going to work but if you need to go to work, you can go to work. it is not quite the zirconia lockdown that we had at the beginning where everything pretty much was shut. —— the problem of course is that we are back where we started. —— draconian measures. we had all of this but it didn‘t seem we have made enough progress. that is why i think it is so important first of all to recognise that those people who are vulnerable must be protected and must be extra careful and we must all be extra careful with them in on their behalf. and we

had the vaccine coming. and that that cannot come quick enough. we must try and find a way that will actually help get rid of the virus rather than trying to squash it, but it seems to then mutate and excavate and start spreading again, which is what seems to be happening now. -- escape. remember the first lockdown. almost everything was stopped. including schools. i think it was over the summer the government said we are to get schools back. they actually did so. then schools i think in some areas had to close early in december. now we are looking to january. we here in the daily telegraph now, the story of the front page schools may stay shut. as ministers look to explain tier 4. that is a conversation that no doubt is turning people apart. ships kids in primary school kids or even secondary school kids go back to school injanuary?

even secondary school kids go back to school in january? yes, it is. the paper tells the debate going on that school kids are supposed to go back to january the 4th after we celebrated new year's day, but the one proposal is that the primary schools can be 11 years and 13—year—olds should be held back to january the 18th and a member of sage has said that is no good, it should be the entire january. and of course imagine the consequence of that come on parents, when the first lockdown took place, there was an enormous pressure on parents to have to cope with the children come educating them in their own. now how are they going to cope with that now? in this whole question of how much infection spreads through children to the adult population. and of course we don't know what this new variant that has emerged, to new variants, one supposed to have come from south africa, with

the effects on the children will be at but i suspect if this story is accurate in the telegraph has had very good stories on the pandemic, we are going to have the schools closed for perhaps the entire month of january. let's look at that point. if schools close, i‘m not asking you to think but it is good or bad, i want to ask a different question. does online learning work? the evidence suggest that actually online learning is fine for some children, especially those in better off households where the parents can be engaged with their education. but it leaves behind the most vulnerable children and with the children from disadvantaged backgrounds not all children living somewhere where they can have a steady and steady on the computer, we didn‘t even set schools during the second world war.

schooling is so important. notjust for the education but also for the socialisation, children stuck at home, parents take it home with children, it is not an ideal way to live. we had it earlier in the year, and it really cost significant problems and the conclusion was that not having children in school it was much more dangerous than having them in school. and i‘m not sure what has changed. i haven‘t seen evidence that has changed. clearly if children are not well, they have to isolate, but not all children will need to be at home. and the parents as you say, it will be really difficult for them as well. let's look more generally at the guardian now. if they see as which i think is weighing a lot of people. the picture of this ambulance and the headline hospitals face covering the choices of who gets care. thinking

right back to the beginning, i remember the government principal was a wanted to stay at home, not because it went anybody plaintiff but it wanted to make sure that everybody who got sick was able to be treated. —— not because they wa nted be treated. —— not because they wanted anybody to be punished. that principle probably still exist but it is under real pressure now. absolutely. if you remember the slogan then, stay at home, protect the nhs. we have been alarmed, the reason we went into this lockdown at tremendous speed was the pictures that came out from italy of what was happening but the hospital system which had broken down. we didn't wa nt which had broken down. we didn't want that. what this article in the pictures that are the guardian has suggested that we may be approaching that. this would be very alarming, the story accompanying the picture says that the royal free and hempstead in london, that icus units

are not available and people are being moved as far as what as yorkshire. that is what is happening, then this what we are likely to see and hopefully what we will not see but like literacy is really very worrying. because then the nhs is not being protected. which was the ultimate goal and has been the basic, absolute, rock—solid goal of this government ever since we we re goal of this government ever since we were swept into the pandemic. was there any other way we do know that i‘m only five months between it, it ta kes i‘m only five months between it, it takes six, seven years for a doctor to be trained. was there any other way for the nhs to expand its capacity? i think the nhs is already adjusting. it is moving patients to places where there is capacity. interchanging wards from one to another and also we still have a nightingale hospital. some of which

u nfortu nately have nightingale hospital. some of which unfortunately have been decommissioned. but it should be the case that nonurgent patients who don‘t need i see you could be treated in one place while we cater for the i that was planned. when it would have to bring in the army or bring in people from overseas, and weather or not i hope we will we make use of the thousands of doctors and nurses who have volunteered to come back from retirement. so that they can help out. —— icu. there is a bureaucratic hole that we must ove rco m e a bureaucratic hole that we must overcome quickly. but we have not run out of capacity. we do not want to run out of capacity. and so far, the practical solutions of moving people from let‘s say hospitals and london which are over capacity, to hospitals and other areas which are under capacity, actually makes huge sense, we are one country come and as people can have visitors it any

cases, it is not the usual problem of people being unable to see their relatives. 0nce of people being unable to see their relatives. once in hospital, my mother was there recently, you go in see them. how did you contact her? —— you cannot go in there. see them. how did you contact her? -- you cannot go in there. it was really tough. there were one or two days where i did have a clue what was going on. the nursing staff are wonderful, the medical staff are wonderful, the medical staff are wonderful, they found her to may charge herfor her mobile phone. i wa nted charge herfor her mobile phone. i wanted to bring it but nobody would let me again to deliver it. —— i didn‘t have a clue. but it is tough. if you can manage to keep in touch at least by phone, even if they are not in your town, it doesn‘t make that much difference because you can visit in any case. we will look at the plight of all the older people now. care homes jab, sos. an exclusive story. it says care homes are still waiting forjabs. i haven‘t read the full story but

nevertheless this is an essential issue. when we have talked about since the beginning. the situation within the care home. yes. and we are here revisiting the past. when the lockdown was announced, what was the lockdown was announced, what was the immediate thing that emerged, the immediate thing that emerged, the fact that care home staff did not have proper ppe and the fact that care homes was where a lot of the infections were to come a lot of the infections were to come a lot of the deaths were in the care homes we re the deaths were in the care homes were not being properly looked after. and here, ros has spoken about vaccines really got. but it will take time for everybody to get the vaccine. people at the care homes need the vaccine urgently. it is quite clear from what the mirror is quite clear from what the mirror is saying and one must say the mirror, and a labour supporting paper, blasting into the tory saying the care homes are not being looked after by the tories. but the fact is that if the story is accurate, then

it suggests that again, the basic principle that we have been, the government has says we have looked into this and solve the problem, hasn't been solved. and this of course kaizen, talking about nightingale hospitals, those hospitals will open to great publicity but probably been used. that has been the constant problem with the pandemic. the government has been more concerned with having a very neat little slogans rather than having a really broad strategy of dealing with this pandemic that can deal with the multiple issues that arise with the problem we are facing. i know in america there have been issues with the distribution of the vaccine. and actually one of the generals in charge issued an apology saying it is his fault hadn‘t started well. do you see some of those logistical problems happening in america that may be happening being an issue in the uk? the

reality of the situation is that we have about 12,000 care homes in this vaccine has to be administered after being kept at around —70 degrees for quite some time, then has a short period where it can be kept at slightly less extreme cold temperatures. but once we get the 0xford vaccine, which should be starting i believe next week, that can be delivered... it hasn't been approved it obviously. exactly. but the expectation is that will be coming in the next couple of weeks at least. if we get that, that can be delivered and sent in a cab or sentin be delivered and sent in a cab or sent ina be delivered and sent in a cab or sent in a van around to the different ca re sent in a van around to the different care homes. to have care home people come into hospitalfor vaccination is simply not practical. you can‘t stick them all in a coaching take them along. but with this particular first vaccine, coaching take them along. but with

this particularfirst vaccine, you really need to take people to the vaccine rather than taking the vaccine rather than taking the vaccine to the people, were as the forthcoming vaccines which are about to be approved we hoped and released as far as we can tell, that should bea as far as we can tell, that should be a real game changer. i am very conscious of what mahir says the government keeps promising and then somehow it isn‘t always happening. but we are vaccinating nearly 1 million people have already had a vaccination, not care homes let people who are really vulnerable, the elderly, those with underlying health conditions without it is starting. and we have to i hope and assume this is going to make all the difference. lockdowns themselves are not stopping this virus. 0nce difference. lockdowns themselves are not stopping this virus. once we get a vaccine, that should be the game changer that we really need. talking about game changers, let‘s look at the daily telegraph back page.

sport. calls to hot the season to stop covid—19 chaos. —— to halt the season. what do you make of that, mahir? a very interesting story. an exclusive. and what they are saying is premier league chairman have been talking that maybe there should be a two week suspension of football, premier league football, because la st premier league football, because last night the manchester city every ten match was postponed. —— manchester city — every ten. because of covid—19. the match tomorrow evening that will be played between fulham and tottenham hotspur, a team that ros and i love may not take place because there is a problem with a team and there have been

other issues, 18, 19 to set a come up other issues, 18, 19 to set a come up in the premier league and what is also going to happen is in a week's time, he will have a third round of the fa cup which means premier league clubs are going to face clubs in the lower leagues who have been having a lot of problems with the pandemic. so it is very possible that with the premier league chairman a that with the premier league chairmana green that with the premier league chairman a green possibly to suspend the premier league, maybe football will in the next few days grind to a hall as it is during the lockdown. the third round is always the best route i find. looking at that page on the telegraph, just above that, marcus rashford. —— at best round. illustrating the fact that this year, sport has become central in the pandemic. both what marcus rashford going off the field and on the field as a way of giving everything to the year, two people are stuck at home for home support suddenly becomes an escape for their

lives. yes indeed. of course, sport is an important part of so many of our lives. and many people need sport both for the physical health in some ways for their mental well—being. they love the weekly rhythm of different sports. so i do think that it is really important and what marcus rashford has done has been quite amazing. he has made a huge difference in area which normally supports people don‘t get involved in. all credit to him. and i really hope that we can keep sport going, both professional sport and of course individual sports. because we increasingly need that kind of physical exercise and release, which if you are just cooped up at home, you have none of the sporting activities, whether it is watching

or participating, it can be really damaging. for 1‘s well—being. or participating, it can be really damaging. for1's well-being. over the august play online scrabble. it is time to talk about brexit. let‘s move to the daily mail. —— or we can all play online scrabble. you had suggested earlier, mahir, that for some people the 1st of january might be seen as a independence day. i remember after the vote —— the 23rd ofjune 2016 was also independence day. we are collecting god a potential national holidays as we head to the 1st of january here. indeed we are. -- collecting and potential holiday. we will see more talks of how this new don will emerge as a result of the historic vote taken to leave the eu in the agreement that has been assigned for that but if you actually look at the details of the agreement, a lot of these measures that have been agreed are actually transitional measures, which will

require further negotiations with the fishery for instance, in a five or six years down the line and there will be other things that will emerge, many other things that haven't yet been discussed, the services sector has been discussed at all. that is such an important pa rt of at all. that is such an important part of our economy and so on. sol think the idea that we have opened a new chapter in the preceding pages can be put away in some sort of locker room and forgotten it just not true. the eu and britain will be continuously in negotiations about various things and people will discover in their lives that their lives have changed and they will not know why they have changed, and how they have to adjust to the changes that will include going to the continent, doing things involving the european union and how many days we can go and stay there and things like that. and i think this will be more like a sitcom that will go on

like fools and horses. in the old boy will continuously reappear. borisjohnson is boy will continuously reappear. boris johnson is unlikely boy will continuously reappear. borisjohnson is unlikely dell boy will continuously reappear. boris johnson is unlikely dell boy but i think it will continuously reappear talking of the new things coming. -- delboy. i've heard of brexit describes as many things were not a sitcom. let‘s look at the daily telegraph finally. a similar front page. a new chapter in our story. i know borisjohnson said that as it, we don‘t have to talk about this anymore, we did carry on talking after 1973 and after the single market, and about the referendum, is in the entire point that neighbours will keep on talking! this isn‘t going to end. yes, and! talking! this isn‘t going to end. yes, and i preferred the phrases that the prime minister use, which are we now need to make sure that your rep knows we can be their best friend and be their ally. we are

next to europe. we are joined to europe physically on the island of ireland. so we are notjust in ireland. so we are notjust in ireland are in our own. we trade with europe. we co—operate weight with europe. we co—operate weight with europe. we co—operate weight with europe. —— island of our own. areas of national security and scientific research into wine. doesn‘t mean we can trade and co—operate with other countries to of course. but naturally, what we will be hopefully be seeking to come closer to the eu again as a sovereign nation, our own choice that we want to participate in some of the fantastic agencies for example that britain has done so much to create. so i think what we are saying is it is not a new book, but it is a chapter that will open up but it is a chapter that will open up more opportunities and help us become hopefully and stay closer with our european partners. ros and

mahir, thinking about the view. —— thank you to both the you. that‘s it for the papers this evening — thank you ros altmann and mihir bose — goodnight. hello. winter is finally turning white for some of us. not all of us going to see the snow over the next few days. the potential is still there for a bit more to come our way, though. it‘s certainly staying cold enough, but that frosty sharp frost at times overnight, icy conditions where we‘re seeing some showers of rain, sleet, hail, yes, some snow, notjust on hills but at times to lower levels, with that risk of disruption. there are coming our way some fairly weak weather disturbances, but they‘re within a flow of air coming down from the north, which means the moisture out of these disturbances will be falling as rain but also sleet and snow in places. and we‘ll have had a few wintry showers overnight, into first thing in the morning. there‘s a sharp frost out there, maybe —9 in a few spots in scotland, icy conditions around and still some

of these showers falling as snow, maybe notjust on hills, into the north, northwest of scotland, northern ireland. a few of these wintry showers running down towards north wales, north west england, the northwest midlands, and then we see an area of rain but turning to sleet and snow potentially for south wales, more especially running eastwards across parts of southern england during wednesday. some uncertainty about how far north it‘ll get, how much sleet and snow there will be within this. it‘ll be a cold day, yes, but much of the eastern side of the uk will stay dry and get to see a bit of sunshine. what rain, sleet and snow there is will continue to pull across parts of southern england overnight and into thursday morning before clearing. as thursday begins, we‘re getting some of these snow showers pushing in towards eastern parts of scotland, and it‘s those that are going to move further south during thursday, again giving the potential for some snow and ice in places, and notjust on hills, and the chance of some disruption as a result. so, this system will take its rain, sleet and snow showers out of scotland and into parts of england and wales

as we go through thursday. the tendency for a lot of that to turn back to rain if you are seeing some snow away from hills during thursday, and where you don‘t get to see any rain, sleet and snow, quite a bit of cloud, maybe a few sunny spells, but it‘ll be cold. that weather system still around overnight and into friday, new year‘s day, the start of 2021. it will tend to die out during friday but still with a good deal of cloud, especially through england and wales, and patchy rain, sleet and hill snow out of that. and little less cold on friday, but temperatures staying below average well into the start of 2021.

this is bbc news. i‘m james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the us president—elect, joe biden, criticises his predecessor‘s vaccine roll—out and pledges 100 million jabs in his first 100 days. turning this around is going to take time. we might not see improvement until we‘re well into march, as it will take time for our covid response plan to begin to produce visible progress. the uk registers another record breaking surge in cases — up by more than 53,000 in a single day. croatia is hit by its strongest earthquake for decades. latest reports suggest seven people have died. another leader of the fashion world in paris, pierre cardin,