are no exception. tomorrow, for the first time in seven months, the royal opera house will open its doors, for a performance by the royal ballet, as our arts editor, will gompertz, reports. this is the first time since mid—march that the full orchestra and the full ballet company have been back at the royal opera house. things have changed a bit while they've been away. the stalls have been removed so the orchestra can play down there, and all the scenery is gone so the orchestra can play at the back if it wants to. this stage is huge, so social distancing is possible, and the dancers only dance in pairs if they are in a specific ballet bubble of two for pas de deuxs. we're in a bubble. he's my working husband. what's it like to be back? really good. really nice. if you leave it till late, you probably never... yeah, the body starts to go, like, into netflix mode. exactly, exactly! how's it different compared to a pre—lockdown show? well, a lot of it is. i think no one was ready, no one could even think that... this could be possible. yeah, one day, they would have to readdress ballet so it would be social distancing... i know. it's crazy to think, you know? i don't know, i guess it's up to the choreographer. the performance might be back, but playing to full houses is unlikely to happen in the nearfuture, putting the royal opera house in a precarious financial position. putting it simply, since march 17, we haven't been able to perform at all. and somehow, we've got to sustain the country's largest community of artists through that without that income, and it's a huge challenge. prized assets, such as this painting by david hockney, are being sold, which will raise much—needed income, as will — the management hope — this special ballet gala, which will be streamed to the world tomorrow night. for now, at least, the show is going on. will gompertz, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. good evening. i'm asad ahmad. a body has been pulled from a river in north london, after a man fell in after being chased by police on bicycles. it happened in tottenham, and the police watchdog is now investigating the circumstances. with more details from the scene, here's tolu adeoye. it was just before 10am this morning when the body of the man was recovered from the river lea in tottenham. the met police said he'd entered the water at about 9.15 last night while trying to evade officers. welcome to bbc news. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us in the coming hours. with me are the chief leader writer of the observer, sonia sodha and the deputy political editor of the daily express, sam lister. we'll be going to the pages in just a moment. let's start with the metro. the paper claims a three—tier system of local restrictions will be announced on monday, with pubs, bars and restaurants facing shutdown and families banned from meeting in each others homes. the mirror says many of the areas likely to be given increased restrictions are in the north of england. the guardian reports that scientists advising the uk governments believe the new restrictions don't go far enough. they think a so—called ‘circuit breaker‘ was needed weeks ago. and on the front page of the i, a stark warning from the england‘s chief medical officer, who says that in three weeks‘ time, intensive care cases in the north of england could pass april‘s peak. elsewhere, the daily telegraph reports on a new campaign to ensure that people with non—covid related sickness get the treatment they need at hospitals and gp surgeries. it comes as the daily mail reports on the impact of lockdown on patients earlier this year, with new figures showing that more than 110,000 people have now been waiting over a year for medical treatment. turning our attention to a couple of international front pages, la figaro reports that several large french cities — lyon, lille, saint—etienne and grenoble — are being placed on maximum covid—19 alert. meanwhile, the japan times says that ‘debate persists‘ on whether or not to hold the tokyo olympics next year, with some arguing that it will help to revive the economy, but others worrying that the pandemic will not be over by then. once again, the coronavirus and everything that comes with it dominating the pages on the international pages. really good to have you both on as always. we‘re going to start with the metro, which is looking at this 3—tier system that we‘re going to have announced potentially on monday, the beginning of next week. but still a little bit of confusion. we don‘t know exactly the details, a lot of speculation as to how these three tiers will look, but ideally it will bea simple tiers will look, but ideally it will be a simple vocation of local restrictions that we have at the moment. the government's faced a lot of criticism for that hodgepodge of different types of restrictions and different types of restrictions and different local areas. people have said quite fairly, i think, it‘s very confusing and that in some areas where you‘ve got lower rates of infection, and other areas you seem to have tighter restrictions. i think people feel there‘s quite a lot of inconsistency across certain areas. this idea of sort of traffic lights, green, amberand red. sort of three tiers, is hopefully something that might help semper fi the system. —— simplify the system. infection rates in one local area may be more to do with one thing, for example, universities. and another area, it may be to do with households ms. king. —— households ms. mixing. you can also see how that‘s incredibly confusing. but i think it still remains quite... we‘re getting that it will be a 3—tier restriction, but it‘s very ha rd to 3—tier restriction, but it‘s very hard to work out what exactly is going to kick in at what level, which area it will apply to. i think the biggest concern at the moment is really in particular in areas of the north. you‘ve got local leaders and mayors saying they have no advance siting of these plans, they don‘t know what it‘s going to be and they‘re extremely concerned that at they‘re extremely concerned that at the moment, the government has made no commitment whatsoever in terms of support for the local and regional economies. so if pubs and restau ra nts economies. so if pubs and restaurants have to shot, what‘s going to happen to keep these jobs? one fascinating insight the telegraph has picked up on is the data. this idea that businesses need to shut their doors by ten o‘clock. the telegraph is suggesting the data on which this decision to shut those doors at ten was cobbled together. talk us through that. there's been a briefing for mp5 talk us through that. there's been a briefing for mps in the regions that are likely to be affected, but they became more disgruntled because the government are saying that there is evidence to suggest that the hospitality sector is partly to blame for the rising cases. but when you actually push for the details of that, it's not forthcoming. we have a briefing, and we were told they weren't ready to publish the evidence yet. that does make me slightly concerned about quite how nail down the study is, how hard this research has been tested and put together. a lot of pubs and businesses are saying actually, we're really covid secure and gone to great links to make sure our customers are protected and we've not had reports of a spike in cases to our business. i think everyone is baffled as to where this data actually is coming from and how reliable it is. indeed. we were interviewing alex noris, mp for nottingham north. he was at that briefing as you say, there is a lot of... he wasn‘t convinced by the science that was put forward during that briefing. of course the consequences are absolutely huge, and that something that the daily mail has picked up on. ultimately, it affects all of us when it comes to patients waiting. 110,000 patients waiting over a year for treatment. it‘s a staggering amount. it is a staggering figure, and it‘s at a hundredfold from what it‘s been in february. in many cases, it was an inevitable consequence. hospitals and intensive ca re consequence. hospitals and intensive care beds were given over to patients with covid. it‘s very hard to see what else the nhs could have done. if it would save lives, but also easily there are consequences that the long—term. i think the thing that is reassuring is the daily mail is trying to present it asa daily mail is trying to present it as a bit ofa daily mail is trying to present it as a bit of a trade—off, so we took the choice to to save lives of covid patients, putting other lives at risk. it is not quite as simple of that, because if you don‘t take restrictions or early enough, hospitals end up getting overwhelmed with covid patients. itjust kind of crowd everything else out. going into the autumn where we‘re already seeing a second wave, i think the key thing is to have the right level of restrictions done in a timely enough manner. so that you don‘t see the situation happening again in the nhs, and their people working very ha rd to nhs, and their people working very hard to ensure people are actually determined that elective care is not going to get cut to one side and the way that was necessitated during the first wave of the pandemic. but the only way to do that is to try and keep what‘s going on in check, and the nhs certainly is making plans around covid designated hospitals and non—covid designated hospitals so and non—covid designated hospitals so there will be hospitals where you have to have a negative test to seek treatment, and therefore if you‘re getting cancer treatment, perhaps it will be more safe to go to those facilities. we have the hope that it given how much more me know, given we‘ve had more warning about the second wave, this is something the nhs will be able to manage this time. indeed, in the daily telegraph also picking up on this idea that this campaign will try to ensure patients that they are not a burden. we been so concerned about not overburdening the nhs that now people are feeling they shouldn‘t go and get treatment so they are trying to ove rco m e and get treatment so they are trying to overcome that. essentially, most people are trying to be good citizens of during this pandemic. i think this is a reflection of that because actually, people seemed conscious about not being a burden. we see all the messages about protecting the nhs, and people are really taking that to heart, but the problem is it does have people failing to receive treatment for other potentially fatal illnesses and actually more mundane things. but it is a reflection of the fact that people are just trying to do their best to help the country through this. i think there is a flip side as well. there are some gps that do seem to be keeping their doors close to face—to—face appointments with some people, and also, there's a big end of hospitals, consultants, patients who have perhaps been seen quite quickly the sort of back log and hospitals. there seems to be a campaign to help, and that is to try to say to people they can go and get treatment, they really must, don't stay at home. we will come back to covid in a moment, but the financial times looking at donald trump. did either of you stay up for the vice presidential debate? i'm afraid not. it was past my bedtime. i have to say i did stay up. the financial times is looking at this idea that this virtual bait that had been suggested with donald trump having tested positive for covid —— virtual debate. it‘s best to have it virtually, but then mr trump said he‘s boycotting it. it‘s quite the situation in the us, bearing in mind that we are under a month now till the actual election. trump has tested positive for