with me are lucy fisher, defence editor, the times and agnes poirier, french writer and broadcaster.h. quite a few front page is already in. starting here in the uk, ‘mersey mission‘ is how the metro describes the prime minister's attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus in the north east of england. boris johnson announced new restrictions around the country with liverpool facing the toughestest rules. —— the northwest. the daily mail says it's back to the bad old days, with 22 million people now under stricter restriction and nine million more could join them later this week. their fuse of a spike of cases in london —— there are fears. the guardian leads on anger over the level of financial support provided by the chancellor, rishi sunak. it mentions of the three nightingale hospitals in the north of england that have been asked to mobilise his cases continues to rise. the telegraph says that borisjohnson ‘overruled' scientists that said the lockdown rules should be tougher than the 3—tier system. the scientific advisory group for emergencies warned the prime minister of ‘catastro

m joined today by agnes poirier of l'express in france and jeffrey kofman, the north american writercaster. and here in the studio at a safe social distance is my colleague, clive myrie. thank you all for joining us today. as they stand, the polls suggest a comprehensive victory for biden in the electoral college of something like 279 to 125. can that really be right? jeffrey? it is pretty clear that if the election was held today it would be right and it would be, as you said in your intro, it would be much stronger than that. if it was today, it would be reasonable to expect that biden would have a landslide in the complicated electoral college that determines who wins the presidency in the us. that 16 point poll you talk about, the cnn poll, is the largest gap but almost every poll in the last couple of weeks puts biden more than ten points ahead of trump. it is hard to see how trump can turn this around, in fact, he has had one of the worst weeks of his presidency. the debate last week was a disaster for him, his bullying did not win him fans and the way he has handled coronaviru

with me are lucy fisher, defence editor, the times and agnes poirier, french writer and broadcaster.w's front pages, starting with: starting here in the uk — ‘mersey mission' is how the metro describes the prime ministers attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus in the north west of england. boris johnson announced new restrictions around the country with liverpool facing the toughest rules. the daily mail says it's back to the bad old days — with 22 million people now under stricter restrictions and nine million more could join them later this week. the express warns that a ‘national lockdown is looming' unless britons stick to the new coronavirus rules. the guardian leads on the anger from northern mayors and some tory mps over the level of financial support provided. the yorkshire post mentions the three temporary so—called ‘nightingale‘ hospitals in the north of england that have been asked to mobilise if cases continue to rise. the telegraph says that borisjohnson ‘overruled' scientists who said the lockdown rules should be tougher — the scientific advisory group for emergencie

england, to namejust a handful of places.to make sense of this difficult times, i'm joined today by agnes poirier