hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the chief political commentator for the independent, john rentoul and the political writer & academic, maya goodfellow. tomorrow's front pages in a moment. first, let's just take you through the front pages. "volunteer army ready to distribute covid vaccine" reads the front page of the telegraph. the paper reports that the oxford covid vaccine could be approved as soon as tomorrow, and that more than 10,000 medics and volunteers have been recruited and trained by the nhs to begin delivering the jab. the mirror headline is "a shot at freedom", as the paper also reports that the oxford/astrazeneca vaccine is just days away from being approved. "we'll be free by february" claims the express, with predictions that britain could be free of severe covid restrictions by then thanks to the new "winning formula" for the oxford vaccine, which insiders say works better than hoped. _by —— by february. the daily mail adds that hundreds of pop—up gp—led vaccination centres are on their way, as part of the drive to help roll out the jab to millions of people as quickly as possible. sticking with vaccines. 0n the front page of the independent, a photo of a health care worker in vienna punching the air having receiving the pfizer vaccine against coronavirus after roll—out of that vaccine began in eu countries today. —— having received. back in the uk, the times reports that senior doctors are warning the nhs could be overwhelmed by the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals — with warnings that things could soon become worse than the peak of the first wave. and on the guardian's front page, another warning — this time from psychiatrists — that the covid—19 crisis poses the greatest threat to mental health since the second world war, with its impact set to last for years. and the front page of the daily star, "swamped" — with a photograph of flooding caused by storm bella. thousands of homes have been affected, and the paper says snow is expected next. never ends, does it? nice to have you booked bath. —— both back. johnny was start with you about hospital cases surging. this had to sneak up on me. i had not realised that we were right up there with the same number of patients in hospital with coronavirus as the peak in april. we have 21,000 patients in hospital with coronavirus. 400 off the peak. we are going past that fairly soon and the big question is what happens next? at least this time we do have the vaccine and other vaccines which is why they are all over the other papers. some of the words used, meiotic, we've got warm zone, a bleak situation. the situation really doesn't seem her rend us and for any of those are in—hospital or family and hospital or working in hospitals, it's an incredibly difficult time. the rest of us are living under different forms restrictions but really, it's the nhs hospitals that are the site of a lot of this chaos. 0bviously nhs hospitals that are the site of a lot of this chaos. obviously a lot of upset and i think as we sort of move into the new year and there are things like a vaccine on the horizon, i don't think this second or potentially third spike are going to disappear but i do think we will increasingly need to ask questions about what's happened in between the march lockdown and now, what has gone wrong? because a big part of the reason having that first block that was to get in place systems so that was to get in place systems so that you could control the spread of the virus and evidently we have this new strain which seems more infectious. that is a part of the puzzle but another part is thinking about test entries which we know has not been functioning... i think a real understanding about how we could have avoided this and moving forward to something that is increasingly important but at the moment, for any of those people being infected, thinking about that and the effect on the nhs right now. let's turn to the front page of the guardian. this instead is looking at the fact that a survey run by the paper, john, says that a lot of medics haven't actually been vaccinated. yes, that is the next question with a vaccine being rolled out. with the vaccines being rolled out. there is going to be a lot of anxiety about who is going to get it first. and this is a survey which suggests that nhs staff feel that it's not being particularly well organised and that they haven't, they are worried they are not going to get it in as soon as they expect to. i don't want to be competitive about this but the independent did report this story before christmas. we reported that some doctors and nurses in london hospitals were upset that they weren't getting the vaccine before othersjust weren't getting the vaccine before others just depending on weren't getting the vaccine before othersjust depending on which part of london they were in. but these sort of unhappiness is about to happen because they are going to be arguments about nhs staff about vulnerable people and pretty soon, we will have a question of whether teachers should get the vaccine before other groups as well in order to allow schools to open in january. i suppose a lot of input on the 0xford astrazeneca vaccine described in the paper is a game changer, maya. with this guardian story by the vaccine, i think one of the things that is also mentioned is the fa ct things that is also mentioned is the fact that not only did nhs staff seem not to be getting the vaccine from this one survey around just over 1,000 doctors, many of them saying they had not been vaccinated. but i think it's also what this story says is it is about the lack of clarity and the uncertainty about it which has created a lot of anxiety in amongst those nhs staff who are obviously doing this incredibly difficult work at this incredibly difficult work at this incredibly difficult work at this incredibly difficult time where we have what seems to be more infectious strain. so the lack of worry about when they will be vaccinated is one of the concerning things here and i think communicating that better with people who are putting their lives on the line when it comes to fighting the coronavirus and when it comes to this really severe second wave, i think it's really important that people understand when they are going to be vaccinated or at least given some kind of picture about what the roll—out is looking like. if we turn to the front page of the male, john, how it will be done because that is another question everybody is asking, the daily mail says it could take place in your village hall. yes and has the same phrase as the daily telegraph i think i'm at the army of volunteers, the army of 10,000 volunteers that will be recruited to help administer these injections. this is ought to do with the oxford vaccine which a lot of the newspapers believe overnight to be approved tomorrow. a lot of pressure on the nhra, i think thatis lot of pressure on the nhra, i think that is the regulatory body that will approve it. —— the that is the regulatory body that willapprove it. —— the nhra. there isa willapprove it. —— the nhra. there is a lot of expectation in the press that it will happen tomorrow. and if it does happen then of course it's easier to administer and to distribute than the pfizer vaccine because it doesn't have to be kept so because it doesn't have to be kept so cold. and i think it is the telegraph that reports the target is to get1 million people a week vaccinated by the middle ofjanuary which is quite a which is cooperation. —— the -- the mhra. why don't you take us to the front of the daily telegraph, maya? we are talking about this in the last hour, watts of days, the next few days, but here at the bbc we have not had confirmation yet. but likejohn was saying, it's all about the volunteers standing by. what the daily telegraph are reporting which are mentioned in a few other places is that there is over 10,000 medics and volunteers that have been recruited by the nhs to help deliver this vaccine. the government has already bought around 100 million doses of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine so there is a real focus in how this will be rolled out once it is hopefully approved wish i think... i think it provides real hope, but i would just note that there is on the front of the independent a picture of somebody in europe getting vaccinated so we're beginning to see this happening in different parts of the world, not just this happening in different parts of the world, notjust the uk. —— on the world, notjust the uk. —— on the independent. it's important to say that many campaigners have said that low income countries, nine out of ten people will not be of it to get the vaccination because it has been bought up by so many countries in the west and what campaigners are: for is for manufacturers to share their technologies with the world health organization so it can be produced more cheaply. as resting in the uk, this open promise about the vaccine and hopefully some kind of normality somewhere down the line in 2021, we also need to be recognising that should be global and everyone should have access to these faxes —— these vaccines and not just richer these faxes —— these vaccines and notjust richer countries that will be able to provide them... we hope the volunteers are vaccinated as well. jon woods go back to the front page of the guardian. and covid bonsai impact on mental health. ——john, let's go back. —— covid's impact... this is one of the impacts of coronavirus, especially on children as you say but also on people who live alone. and as i think maya was saying an hour ago, the economic impact of the restrictions have also taken their toll impact of the restrictions have also taken theirtolll impact of the restrictions have also taken their toll i think on a lot of people. and yes, these are effects that will last for years as the president of the royal college of psychiatrists, doctor adrian james, has warned. but ice expect that most people are aware of that and are worried about it. —— i suspect. but the more immediate concern people have today is the fact that hospitals are filling up fast and the race against time to get the vaccines out. i am sure it's not just isolation, but also the pressure of the economics of not having work, maya. ithink pressure of the economics of not having work, maya. i think as has been said, it's a combination of so many things and depending on who you are and your circumstances, there are and your circumstances, there are many reasons that people might develop mental health difficulties or their problems become worse. this is incredibly concerning and i will say as any of us have encountered the uk's mental health facilities through the nhs nose in recent years in particular, there simply is not enough money going into these services. this needs to be one of the focus is moving forward. yes we are ina the focus is moving forward. yes we are in a severe economic recession but it is things like our nhs and including mental health services that really need to be properly funded so people can access them because if we realise this is a big problem now, we really need to make sure that those services are widely available for people and they are not having to wait long stretches of time to be able to get the support that they need. i think this is something the government really needs to be getting ahead of now given that we can see the crisis thatis given that we can see the crisis that is upon us and that would develop over the next few months and yea rs. develop over the next few months and years. front page of the telegraph, back to the front page. we got some brexiteer. and the mps want to be there in person. some of them do! mps are conservative mps present interesting the party divide there which i have noticed in westminster. the conservative mps are less likely to be wearing face coverings. and keener to be be wearing face coverings. and keenerto be in be wearing face coverings. and keener to be in the chamber. this is suggesting that some of the eurosceptics in the european research group of tory mps are demanding the right to attend the chamberand speak on demanding the right to attend the chamber and speak on the belt. whereas i would've thought the most important thing would be the amount of time of scrutiny that the bill is going to get. —— speak on the bill. the telegraph does reveal that it will be called future relationship bill, which makes it sound really exciting. it is the normal it will put into effect in british law, the treaty that boris johnson put into effect in british law, the treaty that borisjohnson has put into effect in british law, the treaty that boris johnson has agreed with the eu. i don't know if you so that they are, you set exciting! maya, what do you think? what this telegraph story also says is that a lot of mps will be expected to vote by proxy. and i understand that for some of those mps, this is a really exciting and big thing. but given the strain of this new coronavirus and the tier 4 restrictions we are all living under here in london and elsewhere in the country, it seems that maybe it's one of those where working from home wouldn't be such a bad idea. we will end on the front page of the times and storm bella has brought some horrendous weather. they are hardly up horrendous weather. they are hardly up in scotland but oh the poor sheep! john. it's a very striking picture of some sheep and some snow. the sheep are tough animals. they are used to it. think about climate change, sadly, is that we don't get as much snow as change, sadly, is that we don't get as much show as we change, sadly, is that we don't get as much snow as we used in the uk. you haven't seen snow in london for years now, i can't member the last time.
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