it will take f: l l its fi feeling it will take days and days before the water drops away sufficiently for people to get back into their houses. you stand here, you can smell the water. it's not dirty as such. it's fairly clean, but it has got kerosene in it because that is the heating fuel that all of the houses here use at this time of year, and there are thousands of litres of kerosene that have lea pt back thousands of litres of kerosene that have leapt back into this water, making it smell, giving it a film, flowing into the houses and causing more damage. people here are very upset, of course. in one —— one man told me it was heartbreaking. it will be awhile before they can it all. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. february was the wettest on record across the uk. march has started on across the uk. march has started on a quieter note, and through the rest of today and tomorrow, may be for the next few days, sunshine and

showers. a bit of cloud bubbling up at the moment, threatening a few showers. there was rain in the southeast overnight, which is why we have this cloud around this morning. some sunshine should be coming through as the rain clears. there is a risk of showers around elsewhere. the heavier ones will come into northern ireland. the wetter weather in scotland will be confined to the north—west, where there will be snow over the hills and there will be stronger winds. not as windy elsewhere, temperatures of 7—9dc. this evening, a scattering of showers, but wetter weather overnight, pushing down across northern ireland, scotland and into england and wales. with these temperatures so widely close to freezing, there may be icy patches around too. tomorrow, sunshine and showers, in different places at different times of the day, because the heavier showers in western areas will push into eastern england and scotla nd will push into eastern england and scotland in the afternoon. there

will be more clout. further west, the showers easing off, more in the way of sunshine. temperatures like today, may make double figures across parts of southern england and wales. in the next couple of days, we are in this cool, showery air stream. complications in the middle pa rt stream. complications in the middle part of the week because we have an area of low pressure approaching from the south—west and some weather fronts. that is likely to spill rain east across the midlands and southern england. may be a bit of snow by the end of the day in the hills of wales and perhaps the cotswolds. temperatures will change very little. a lot of uncertainty about the details on wednesday. that low pressure and the rain could be further north, even into northern england. it should tend to push away overnight, and on thursday, the last of that wetter weather and the cold airare clearing of that wetter weather and the cold air are clearing away from the south—east of england, the cloud

eventually breaking. elsewhere, sunshine at times, more showers coming in, most of them in western scotla nd coming in, most of them in western scotland and northern ireland, and they will be wintry over the hills. temperatures are still on the cool side, 7—9dc. at least the next week ahead looks an awful lot quieter. it is nowhere near as wet or as windy as it has been. it will be quite chilly, particularly at night, and their mates be —— there may be some frost around as well. a reminder of our top story. the prime minister warns that there may be more cases of coronavirus in the days and weeks ahead and there is an action plan to deal with it. that's all from the bbc news at one — so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... we start with the breaking boxing news that world heavyweight

champion antonyjoshua will defend his four belts, against the bulgarian boxer kubrat pulev. there had been suggestions that joshua could meet tyson fury next.joining us is bbc boxing commentator steve bunce i — pulev is a mandatory contender for the ibf belt, and joshua was due to fight him in 2017, pulev was injured — isjoshua obliged to fight him? yes, he is stuck, to be perfectly honest or he can surrender the belt. he has got plenty of others, but if he wants to keep all of the belts intact and if he wants to keep his eyes on that enormous price, the first time ever that two heavyweight champions will fight for all four belts, he has to keep it and to do that, he has to fight the bulgarian. it is not simple, we have been saying it for 18 months. it is hard to avoid but at the same time most people want to avoid it. how tough will not fight be against pulev?

really hard. he is a dangerous fighter and when he did not fight joshua back then, at the time, i thought it would have been the ha rd est thought it would have been the hardest fight of his career and what pulev has got is he has got nothing to lose. in heavyweight boxing, that is the most dangerous thing you can deliver to the ring. do you remember madison square garden, everyone thought it was a walkover, but he knocked joshua out. he had nothing to lose. that is the danger. he got it back. after tyson fury‘s win over deontay wilder, many fans hoped the next fight would bejoshua fury — but it looks like there will be a third wilder fury fight? will we seejoshua v fury this year? not this year. forget what the promoters say and what the fighters won, my gut feeling is may of next year and it could be in may of next year and it could be in may of next yearin year and it could be in may of next year in las vegas. if it is this year, it will be late december back

in saudi. it will be worth the wait. it would have been nice to see it a british unification fight in britain. 90,000 people at wembley? it sells out in about three and a half seconds, it would stop the country for a week, it would be fantastic, lovely to have it here but it will not happen. we don't get what we want, we get will we negotiate. conformation that joshua's fight against pulev will be at tottenhams stadium — advantage forjoshua? fantastic advantage. pulev has been hanging out trying to get more money 01’ hanging out trying to get more money or get the fight shifted somewhere else in europe. anthonyjoshua will walk to the ring and he might walk to the ring first, he is meant to work second and the reason he will do that, he did that in saudi arabia and he loved to been in the ring with 20,000 people and i think he will do the same at the new spurs ground in north london. he will walk out, 80,000 people and he will enjoy

every single second. thank you so much for your time. the coronavirus continues to have an impact on sports around the world and the opening motogp race in qatar has been cancelled while football in italy remain seriously affected. juventus have confirmed that the coppa italia match against ac milan will go ahead. fans will be able to attend unless they have a membership address affected by the outbreak. leche against atalanta was one of only five games to take place over the weekend and visiting fans from the weekend and visiting fans from the northern —based team were tested for symptoms of the coronavirus on their way into the ground. meanwhile organisers of the 6 nations will meet later today to discuss plans for the remainder of the tournament and ireland ‘s match against italy in dublin scheduled for this weekend has already been called off. there are still doubts over other matters including england ‘s visit to rome on the final weekend. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.

more now on our top story — and the prime minister says the uk needs to be prepared for coronavirus to spread further in the coming days and weeks. after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency cobra committee this morning, he said an action plan to tackle the virus had been agreed. i think it is very important to stress that this is a problem that i think is likely to become more significant for this country in the course of the next days and weeks and therefore, we have been making every possible preparation for that and this country is very well prepared. we have agreed we have a fantastic nhs and fantastic testing systems, amazing surveillance of the spread of disease, but we have also agreed a plan so that as and when, if and when it starts to spread, as iam afraid if and when it starts to spread, as i am afraid looks likely that it will, we are in a position to take

the steps that will be necessary, that will be reasonable, and possible, to contain the spread of the disease. and as far as we can. and also to protect the most vulnerable. and we will be developing the panel, announcing the details of that plan notjust tomorrow but in the course of the days and weeks ahead. as the thing develops. now, don't forget, it is still the case that the single most useful thing that we can all do to support our nhs, to stop the spread of coronavirus is to wash our hands, two times happy birthday, hot water and soap, other than that, though, i wish to stress, that at the moment, it is very important that people consider that they should as far as possible go about business as usual. you say however that this is likely

to get more significant, your health secretary said prepare for the worst of what is the worst, because people are worried? you will have seen there are all sorts of projections of where it could go and you will have seen what happened in china, but ourjob is to protect the public and we think we have got a very good plan, a very good way of telling how and when to take the steps necessary to stop the spread of the disease. when would that be? actions like closing schools, when that trigger? i think the most important thing for people to understand is that it would be governed by the scientific advice. that is the crucial thing. the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser, all the four nations of the uk, by the way, are working with the chief medical officers of the devolved administration, they are also involved in this. they will be

helping us to take the key decisions, the decisions about when and how to take protective steps will be led very much by the scientific advice. boris johnson speaking a time ago. post—brexit trade negotiations between the uk and the european union are underway in brussels. it comes as the government also publishes details of what it hopes to get from a free trade agreement with the united states. mark price was a trade minister in david cameron's government, after many years as managing director of waitrose. victoria derbyshire asked him if a free trade agreement can really be done between the uk and the eu before december. well, it is a bit of a tall order but it can be done if both sides agree from the outset what they want and it is agreed that the ratification will take place in brussels. then there is no reason theoretically why it couldn't be done. but of course there are a host of reasons why it could be difficult, because it could have to

be agreed by all the regional parliaments, it could be that there is disagreements over a number of issues of substance and of course that will slow things down. at this early stage, no one knows, but it could be done. 0k. how likely is a deal, how likely is no deal? well, i think a deal with the eu is likely, it is in the interests of everyone to do that. if you look at exports from europe to the uk, they are substantial, they outweigh the exports from the uk to europe. in food alone, there are about 10 billion euros and about 4 billion of thatis billion euros and about 4 billion of that is from france alone. it is very much in the interests of europe to try and get a deal, but it is not one—sided. 0n to try and get a deal, but it is not one—sided. on our side we would want access for financial services and it is in the interests of both sides to try and get a deal. if i had to press you, what do you think is the most likely outcome, a deal or no

deal? a deal. simply because economically both europe and the uk need a deal. right, let us turn to the us. how big a task will it be to negotiate a free—trade deal with the united states? 0h, huge. say there are 100 negotiators going to the eu today, you will have a similar number that will go to america. these things do take time. having said that, victoria, what you can do is agreejust to said that, victoria, what you can do is agree just to do a deal in the first instance on the few things that you might agree on, just to get your off and that you might agree on, just to get youroff and running. that you might agree on, just to get your off and running. i think it is a deal in the first instance on the few things that you might agree on, just to get your off and running. i think it is possible that a deal could be done with the usa but to do a substantive deal will probably ta ke a substantive deal will probably take quite a bit of time. we do not currently import chlorine wash chicken from the us as you know as a former md of waitrose and former deputy chair ofjohn lewis. we might be pressurised in negotiations with

the us to allow chlorine wash chicken in our country, ie lower food standards. if chlorinated chicken was imported to this country, consumers would only buy it if they wanted to, wouldn't they? well, first of all, your food if they wanted to, wouldn't they? well, first of all, yourfood has if they wanted to, wouldn't they? well, first of all, your food has to be labelled, so you have to label what is in it. whether that is the way it is washed or what agents have gone into it, or pesticides etc that we re gone into it, or pesticides etc that were used in the growing of crops or the feed that is used, we have very strict regulations in the uk and in europe as well about the standard of food that we put on our shelves in the supermarket. if today we want to import from a country outside the eu, that food has to meet our standards and that will continue to be the case. it simply is not in the gift of the uk trade minister to say that it's ok, we will take x y or z.

if we have a law that parliament are going to have to agree, they will have to change that law. it is not straightforward to simply say we are going to import things that at the moment we legislate against, but parliament of course can change any legislation they might want to, either through a bill or through changing the current legislation. 0k, changing the current legislation. ok, that is really interesting. can you see the us pressurising uk negotiators to comprise, to change that law, to allow them to import chlorinated chicken to the uk? yes, of course. what they will argue is they will accept equivalents, they will accept our standards if we accept theirs and then it is for us to go back and think about that and decide if we want to do that and decide if we want to do that and decide if we want to change our law and to do that or not. when i was running waitrose we exported duchy original organic products to america andi original organic products to america and i can remember we tried to

export the short cakes and they are made with organic butter in the uk but the organic butter standards in the uk and europe are different to the uk and europe are different to the standards in america. and in the end we were able to export those biscuits but we could not call them organic. there are hundreds and hundreds of different pieces of legislation in the uk, different now by country, so scotland and wales and northern ireland will all have some of their own local rules, but it is also the same for the 50 states in america. so, it is never straightforward, what we will do is negotiate a standard and then if people from america want to export to the uk or we want to export to america, you have to meet those standards. what the trade negotiators are trying to do is to make it as easy as possible for our exporters. so to take down all the barriers, there will be tariff barriers, there will be tariff barriers, that is the amount of money you have to pay for the goods to go into the country and then

there are non—tariff barriers and thatis there are non—tariff barriers and that is things like, you can only export to this country if for insta nce export to this country if for instance your chicken is not chlorinated washed. so what the trade negotiations are trying to do is say there shouldn't be a tariff and our standards are really good and our standards are really good and you should apply to our standards. as i said earlier, that applies to everything that you can think of, it applies to ceramics, cars, of food. that is why it takes time to work through all of those things and come to an agreement. understood. 0ne things and come to an agreement. understood. one final question. what are you calling on the government and businesses to do to promote workplace happiness? well, i, having spent 3a years in thejohn lewis partnership believe that it is really important that people are happy at work. i've never really liked the phrase worklife balance it implies that work is terrible and you have a life and i think work should be enjoyable and all the research says that people who are

happy at work and organisations that have a happy workforce are more productive, more profitable and shareholders get a better deal. what i have done is i have built a platform where people can go and measure the workplace happiness and improve it. what i would like to see over the coming years is for government and companies to understand that having a happy and engaged workforce is fundamental to improving the productivity of the uk and the prosperity of the uk for all of us. so i think there is a very strong link between a happy and engaged workforce and commercial success engaged workforce and commercial success and i want to promote that, both personally and our businesses and the government to start to appreciate that there are real benefits for mental health and well—being, company profits and for society and for the treasury. mark price talking to victoria derbyshire. the government has today taken over the running of all the train services which were previously

operated by arriva rail north. the takeover was announced in january following widespread commuter chaos since may 2018 when the timetable was changed. passengers experienced regular delays and cancellations. 0ur correspondent danni hewson has been in manchester and has been explaining what difference it will mean for passengers. this morning's commute was the first real test of the government's operator of last resort which took control of the northern rail franchise last night. all the staff that work here at this depot in north manchester, all the trains are now under their control and it is a complicated franchise. more than 3000 services every single day. passengers have got used to delays, to cancellations and to overcrowding. they understand that there can be no magic wand waved, but i was talking to transport secretary grant shapps earlier and he said he understood that people wanted change. i think anyone who has been travelling on these trains for months will say it is not a day, a minute, a second too soon to do something different, because there is no doubt in my mind

that the service these people have been getting is appalling and you're right, it has notjust all been the previous franchisee's fault, there were many other factors, engineering and trains not coming and all the rest of it and those things will not be magic—ed away, but i think we could do better and ijust believe that people deserve trains that turn up on time so that they can get to work, get home, see the kids, all those things that people want to do in their everyday lives. today is the start, the start only, of some improvements. the operator of last resort is going to be working with northern politicians and with passenger groups. they are going to report back in 100 days on the progress that has been made and the progress that still needs to be made on the northern rail network. the coronavirus is also something which is causing particular concern on public transport. grant shapps says today that people shouldn't avoid the services, but needed to make sure that they took simple precautions like washing hands when they came off services.

we have had storm after storm in the uk over the last few weeks but it was the wettest february on record and we have seen a lot of flooding across parts of the uk. weather experts are warning that these storms are just a "taste of things to come". a leading meteorologist has told the bbc that the government was warned to prepare for more frequent flooding four years ago. wyre davies reports. the floods that tore through these communities have left devastation in their wake and residents driven from their homes. a man in his 90s rescued by stretcher on his birthday. a young woman almost drowned in her bed by rising water levels. people are shell—shocked. i'm surprised that, you know, everybody survived, because the water came in so quick and a lot of people were surprised so quickly, a lot of people could have drowned. lives and livelihoods were completely overwhelmed as the river taff burst its banks. rising waters at this car showroom meant that hundreds of vehicles were written off.

businesses like this furniture store in pontypridd were cleaned out. this will cost thousands to replace, and unlike some big stores, they're not covered. the damage isn'tjust financial. insurance was due for renewal recently. the flood cover was removed by the insurance company so we've had to renew with no flood cover. i'm not sleeping right at the moment. there's a lot of stress, there is a lot of worry. i've spent two years building up from nothing. there was nothing in here. it's a new business and it's all gone. the council is giving flooded businesses £1000 each to get them back on their feet. the welsh government has promised £10 million towards emergency help. but it's nowhere near enough. lives have been turned upside down in communities like this. the human cost is clear. but it could cost hundreds of millions of pounds to clear up and repair the damage to homes, businesses and communities. but there were warnings that this

wasn't going to be a one—off, that this is the shape of things to come. so, just how prepared are we? a leading meteorologist says the authorities were warned to be prepared for the worst in a report on climate change four years ago after floods in 2015. these used to be maybe one in 100 year events, one in a generation events, now they're happening probably once every five years, they're happening on a much more frequent basis. and that frequency will probably continue to increase as we go forward in time. so, you're talking about nearly a 40% to 50% increase in the amount of water that's coming down these valleys into these river flows compared to what we saw during some extreme rainfall events at the end of 2015. that should ring a lot of alarm bells in political circles, shouldn't it? absolutely. i mean, the evidence's here, we're seeing it here and now, not just... the report was talking about what might happen in the future, we are seeing it playing out in reality. there are other consequences.

there are more landslides and earth movements in these valleys than anywhere else in the uk. a legacy of coal mining. and increased rainfall can make disused coal tips unstable. now is the time to definitely re—evaluate where we are and using new technology, like laser surveying, and do a re—evaluation of the valleys and identify these old tips and evaluate them all one by one. as the clean—up continues, the welsh government says that addressing the issues around climate change is a priority. the warning signs are there. more rainfall and flooding is inevitable. how will we deal with it when the next deluge comes? wyre davies, bbc news. a rare piano that's been described as ‘immortal‘ goes up for auction in israel this week. the piano of sienna — which is more than 220 years old — has spent its life at the world's fair in paris, in a second world war african battlefield, and has travelled from new york to tel aviv.

rich preston has the story. with an unusually ornate design, the instrument has had quite a life. it was made in 1799, according to the winner ‘s auction injerusalem, by the turin based harpsichord maker sebastian marchisio and has been described as a visual masterpiece. he died before he could finish it, but his descendants finished it for him and gave it to his granddaughter as a wedding gift. it appeared at the world ‘s fair in paris in 1867, before being to italy's then prince and future king, and umberto the first, before falling into nazi hands. the piano surfaced again after the 1942 battle of el alamein in egypt, in a crate with the mine detector. translation: when the british forces opened it, they were astonished to see a piano inside, buried in the desert sand.

from there, it ended up with an israeli piano merchant who fixed it up and took it to new york, where it was displayed in steinway hall. translation: it was displayed as a kind of eighth wonder in the most well—known piano shop in new york and became a pilgrimage for pianists and enthusiasts. now, its owner says it is time to let go of this beautiful creation and for the next chapter in its life to begin. it goes under the hammer on tuesday. rich preston, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello there after all the wet and windy weather at the start of the weekend and the name storm things have come down and for many places this afternoon will stay dry with some sunshine. we have seen some cloud bubbling up and it does threaten the shower as well. the cloud in the south they should be

clearing through after that earlier rain, a speckling of showers coming in on the westerly breeze with the wetter weather continuing towards the north west of scotland where winds are stronger and there will be snow in the hills. temperatures between seven and 9 degrees in the sunshine and for the east of the uk where the winds are light it should not feel too bad. a few showers around during this evening and overnight wetter weather coming back into northern ireland across scotland, down towards the north of england and wales. some heavy showers and may be snow on the hills. with temperatures close to freezing quite widely, there may be icy patches around as well. tomorrow we see the sunshine returning to northern ireland as these heavier showers move across scotland, wales, the north of england through the midlands and heading east the showers become fewer and lighter and there will be more cloud around in there will be more cloud around in the afternoon. further west, there will be more cloud around in the afternoon. furtherwest, more sunshine and fewer showers in the afternoon. temperatures like those of today perhaps picking in double figures in the far south of england and wales. we have this cool showery air stream over the next day or two

and then around the middle part of the way, a few complications because we have an area of low pressure in these weather fronts coming into that colder air are threatening to bring some rain. at the moment wednesday sees wet weather coming into the south west of england pushing into wales and the west country and a bit of snow over the high ground in wales, perhaps into the cotswolds by the end of the day. the wetter weather moving east and further north it is brighter, drier, some sunshine and showers mainly for the north—west of scotland. that area of low pressure in the rain with it could be further north but at the minute it looks like it is more southern parts of the uk that will see that wetter weather overnight, a bit of snow over the hills perhaps, moving away from south—eastern areas on thursday morning, the cloud taking longer to break up and elsewhere some sunshine at times, showers mainly for the west of scotland and for northern ireland. we are still in this chilly air stream so temperatures between seven and 9 degrees. as you have seen over seven and 9 degrees. as you have seen over the next few days it is not as wet, not as windy as it has been, however it will be quite cold

at night and there will be some frost around as well.

hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm ben brown. today at 2. the prime minister warns that cornonavirus is likely to spread in the uk. the nhs prepares for a major outbreak as borisjohnson holds a meeting of the goverment‘s cobra emergency committee on how to deal with the virus. as and when, if and when it starts to spread, i'm afraid it looks likely that it will be. we are in a position to take the steps that will be necessary. the haggling begins — post brexit trade talks get under way in brussels. security is stepped up on the greek border as turkey's president erdogan agrees to meet russia's vladimir putin in a bid to stem the crisis in syria.