and highlights of the night, including south korea's bong joon—ho, who won the oscar for best director for parasite, the third on the night for the film. and of course as we have said, making history winning best picture. with me is mark davies who's ceo of strategy consultancy camberton. let's get stuck in. the irish times, as you would expect, the entire front page analysing the results as they have been coming in. we have the final —— not have the final numbers yet that have taken place. it is a huge shift. sinn fein have got 2496 huge shift. sinn fein have got 24% of the vote as things currently stand, and it looks unlikely that a government can be formed without some kind of participation from them. given that leo varadkar said that he

would not deal with them, that does not look particularly good for him. obviously they are a left—wing party and fine gael area left—wing party and fine gael are a liberal conservative party led by leo varadkar. what they have in common is very little. sinn fein, for you and me and everybody of our age, we know sinn fein as the political wing of the ira, so this is a very big change in irish politics. and it has big knock—on implications for us in the uk, and what i think is quite notable here as we have gone with the irish times because we have really had to go with the irish times, because the british papers for all the fact that this is our closest neighbour, and this is a pretty seismic change in politics, barely mention it. there is very, very little, there is a page for peace in there is a page for peace in the financial times as well as a small piece on the front page, " page a small piece on the front page, —— page fourapiece. but there is nothing on the front pages about the impact of this.

that is interesting because there is a huge change going on in ireland in terms of the outcome of this election, but also they are within the european union and we are not. we are in this period of time where we are negotiating what the trade deal will look like in 2021, and this relationship is paramount isn't it. effectively we have put a border in the irish sea and we 110w border in the irish sea and we now have the largest party in ireland having as its principal foreign policy... principal thing it is going for to have a united ireland. so yes it has very big implications for those negotiations and for our relationship with the irish. and yet it is something that has barely been mentioned in the media over the course of the media over the course of the last two or three days. we won't get the full results for a few days still because they have a single transferable vote, so it can go to seven or eight counts before you actually know in some seats who has one. but yes, there is very

little talk about it. and more analysis hopefully to come as we get those results through and see what the real picture will look like in the end. the daily telegraph and others are talking about this super spreader, pressure on health chiefs over the bridge virus super spreader. what do you make of this story, i guess every newsroom has to have an angle on this story. i feel very sorry for the guy in question, even though he is not named. he is document as a super spreader but he didn't know he had it. he went on holiday to singapore, came back, showed no symptoms but it turned out he had it. and some people he was in contact with got it as a result. i have a meeting on thursday with someone meeting on thursday with someone who is returning from singapore, i have joked someone who is returning from singapore, i havejoked with her, should i be sitting in a room with you? but in all areas you do think that there is no guidance on what we should be with this. for all the fact that we are looking at the movements of this one individual, he is not the only

person to come back from singapore who was not exhibiting signs of the coronavirus. this is the problem when you have a two—week incubation period where you have absolutely no idea you could have the virus. this is the real issue with regard to its spread. two weeks ago i came back from the world economic forum in davos, where there were people from all over there were people from all over the world, china, hong kong, singapore et cetera, we were all in shuttle buses whizzing around in everything. you could be sitting there at the moment. but then you would be down at the super spreader and you know nothing about it. the headline sort of implies that the person knew they had it and then didn't do anything to stop it being spread. and of course thatis being spread. and of course that is not what happened at all. the financial times looks at the challenge this presents, and we talk about one individual but the challenge this presents in china as thousands returned back to the factory floors, businesses reopen, how do you prevent this

from spreading further? this is the question people are wondering, when do we get to the peak. it will clearly spread further. there are 37,000 cases of this now, and it is clearly contagious. so it is going to spread further. i think the only saving grace is that the death rate that has come out is actually very low. 296 come out is actually very low. 2% of people roughly have had it have died from it. if you compare that with sars a number of years ago, the death rate was around 10%. the number of people that have died of coronavirus has onlyjust gone through the sars number of around 800. and mers as well. but there have been five times as many cases of this as there we re as many cases of this as there were of sars. this will continue for some time because it is clear they are not on top of it. for all the fact that they have tried to disinfect wuhan and we have seen some quite interesting pictures of what has been going on there, they are clearly not on top of

it. it is clearly going to spread further. and we shall see what that means in terms of china growth, global growth this year. it is very difficult to predict. yes, but not dust china. we talked about the super spreader in the uk... global growth. absolutely, people have flown there from all over the world and you will see cases of disappearing all over the world. the sydney morning herald, sydney storage levels those by more than half after huge rain event. it is a blessing and a curse isn't it. this rain desperately needed, it has put out some of those fires that were the main cause of the wildfires, the —— that ravaged australia for months. yet as you would expect, flooding will happen, the ground is not solid. the amount of water has increased by half that they have got in their reservoirs over the course of the last year. i lived in syd ney the last year. i lived in sydney 15 years ago and at the time they were going through

such a grout that there was talk about the fact that it might never rain in sydney again, it had not rained for such a long period of time. whereas now they have just had this massive deluge. it does cause problems, we have talked about this repeatedly over the yea rs, about this repeatedly over the yea rs , we about this repeatedly over the yea rs, we have about this repeatedly over the years, we have talked about it a little bit this weekend in the uk, just with the storm we have had, storm ciara. these weather events are getting more severe or appear to be getting more severe, and yeah, it is not comfortable if you are letting them day by day. it is really, really tough. the oscars. you manage to see any of these films? the only one i have seen unfortunately didn't win, which was 1917. that is the only one i managed to see. the only one i have seen his marriage story which also didn't win any oscars either. that's not true, laura dern, best supporting actress. of course, she got best supporting actress for marriage story, but is on netflix. —— that is on

netflix. 1917 was predicted to win best picture by many, it is a sort of film that one would have expected to win, but parasite, the fact that it has one is historic. it will be something for people to talk about in days to come. i would like to see renee's earlier, even “— like to see renee's earlier, even —— rene zellweger, even more so now asjudy. even —— rene zellweger, even more so now as judy. let's have a look at bong joon—ho, the director parasite speaking to the press, this is the moment now where they spill out and they are all talking to the media. they then go into the parties. a fantastic win for him and this film, making history. you know, a film picked by the oscars with subtitles. yes, it is extraordinary, it will be interesting to see whether that tra nsfers interesting to see whether that transfers into a successful box office, because it doesn't necessarily mean because of the

subtitles that the money will come in. in quite the same way. obviously it is popular but whether it will punish the lights out in the way an english—speaking film would do remains to be seen. have you seenjoker? remains to be seen. have you seen joker? clearly i ought to be going to see it. definitely, absolutely, it is what i have wa nted absolutely, it is what i have wanted to see but have not got around to. so many fantastic films this year, thank you very much indeed marked, there is laura dern as i mentioned, she got supporting actress for her role in marriage story, was the netflix winner of the night. thank you very much indeed for being with us here on the briefing, thank you as well the company and your comments about the oscars.

hello there. storm ciara may well be leaving the shores of the uk as we speak, but not without leaving a lasting impression. just take a look at the gusts of wind that we had on sunday, in excess of 90 miles an hour for some areas. and there was a spell of very heavy flooding rain as well, as the main front cleared away, which left a trail of showers in its wake. so, yes, storm ciara moves off into the near continent now, but behind it, plenty of isobars remain and the wind direction is coming from the north—west, so much cooler sort of areas turning those showers to sleet and snow on the higher ground of scotland at the moment, with a frequent rush of showers through scotland, northern england and northern ireland, and temperatures close to freezing. there could be icy stretches around first thing in the morning. showers of rain further south will be few and far between, but nevertheless it's going to be a windy start to our monday morning.

so we continue to see plenty of showers of snow in scotland, northern ireland and northern england. a rush of sharp showers merging togetherfor longer spells of rain, as we go through the day across england and wales. a cool feeling right across the country, temperatures ranging from 4—8 degrees. factor in the strength of the wind and it will feel noticeably colder. it's almost a repeat performance on tuesday, most of the sleet and snow showers will continue through scotland, northern ireland, northern england, fewer showers further south, but still a cool feeling, but with these blizzard conditions we could start to see several centimetres of snow accumulating, and there will be some drifting. again, another cold feeling today, 4—7. but we have not really seen any significant winter weather so far. it is worth bearing in mind, northern hills could start to see some significant accumulations. until we get towards wednesday, and hopefully the isobars will open up and we will see some lighter winds developing and fewer showers around. a greater chance of seeing more sunshine

for wednesday. a better day with those lighter winds. temperatures of similar values, ranging 4—9. but with those light winds by day, that is going to lead to a chilly start to thursday morning, maybe a touch of frost around. it won't last very long, as we see another area of low pressure moving in during thursday, bringing in yet more wet and windy weather across the country. so if you haven't got the message already, it does look as though it's going to stay very windy indeed this week. frequent showers, snow on hills, and much colder.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: storm ciara causes chaos across the uk. thousands of homes are without power while torrential rain has brought flooding and major travel disruption. today, travel disruption. once again, the met office has today, once again, the met office has weather warnings out across scotla nd has weather warnings out across scotland and northern ireland for wind, snow, potentialfor blizzard in higher ground wind, snow, potentialfor blizzard in higherground and wind, snow, potentialfor blizzard in higher ground and northern ireland for ice and snow in southern ireland for ice and snow in southern ireland for ice and snow in southern ireland for gusty winds. more details in 15 minutes. history made at the oscars as parasite wins best picture —