hello and welcome along to the programme. we'll get to the latest developments on how the coronavius is affecting sport around the globe in a minute, but first, to the fa cup as it's fifth round week with 8 ties taking place over the next four days. and tonight's match ended with the arsenal fans celebrating fifth round week with 8 ties taking place over the next four days. and tonight's match ended with the arsenal fans celebrating at full time after they beat portmouth by two goals to nil to become this year's first team into the quarter—finals. craig templeton has all the details. this park has a relate two repetitions of one of the best parts

in english. a win against arsenal. they would also need a bit of bite, i know val given for this. lucas‘s game was over before it began. pompey had begun to feel the way into the game. the look on evan's face shows you he should have done better. premier league quality will help eventually show through. reese nelson's cross was good, help eventually show through. reese nelson‘s cross was good, i— help eventually show through. reese nelson's cross was good, 1— neil arsenal. this time it was eddie with the finish. that's his third goal in his last full. sachar couldn't find the back of the net. two goals would be all they need. a comfortable night for arsenal as they look for a 14th fa cup title. meanwhile, in the only championship game of the night, nottingham forest snatched a late equaliser to level it 2—all against middlesbrough. boro had come from

behind to lead 2—1 at the riverside stadium thanks to goals from rudyje—stead and lewis wing, but lewis grabban‘s equaliser means middlesbrough stay in the relegation zone. as for forest, they remain fourth in the table. now to something that's affected nearly 100,000 people worldwide, spread across 60 countries and claimed around 3,000 lives. the coronavirus. it's not only having a devastating effect on lives around the globe, but sporting events as well. today the swiss football league has been suspended until at least 23rd march, and the international champions cup matches in asia this summer have been cancelled altogether. while england's cricketers won't shake hands on their tour to sri lanka. so how's it going to affect the premier league? jurgen klopp thinks it won't. how much sense it would make two

delete all the results of this season delete all the results of this season and tell me who plays next year would be really interesting. it's a nice story but but when i saw it first time i thought wow, somebody thinks something like that so. somebody thinks something like that so. liverpool fans are not silly enough to believe these things. meanwhile, doubt has been cast over whether the six nations would continue this weekend. after ireland against italy was postponed, officials decided earlier today that the other two matches this weekend, england against wales and scotland v france, will go ahead as planned. our sports correspondent, alex capstick was in paris where world rugby held their meeting. here at the headquarters, the team have been practising ahead of their game against scotland over the weekend in edinburgh where they hope to reserve their unbeaten record in this year's tournament. a statement released earlier today says as it stands, that match will

go ahead as planned. members of the six nations council have been meeting here in paris to discuss the ramifications of the coronavirus crisis. they will take advice from health experts and from governments. borisjohnson has health experts and from governments. boris johnson has had health experts and from governments. borisjohnson has had a meeting in london today in which he said the expected the disease to spread but they had a plan in which more details will be revealed in the next days and weeks. there still is a decision to make on what to do about the postponed match between italy and ireland in dublin. so far, that's the only game to be called off and this year's competition, but off and this year's competition, but of course that could change. just a quick look at some of the other stories grabbing the headlines today. 0rganisers of the six nations haven't ruled out taking the championship off free—to—air television. the rights are currently shared between the bbc and itv. but that won't be allowed when the current deal ends in 2021. there are reports today saying that it could lead to the tournament going behind a paywall. staying with the six nations,

maku vunipola is back in the england squad for their game against wales this weekend. the prop missed the ireland game for personal reasons. anthony watson and mark wilson are also back after suffering injuries. and the former england winger, chris ashton has left sale sharks after terminating his contract early. he joined sale nearly two years after a spell in france with toulon. he's scored 20 tries in 44 tests for england, but hasn't been capped in more than a year. anthony joshua has announced that his next fight will not be the all british heavyweight showdown against tyson fury. but instead, against his mandatory ibf challenger, kubrat pulev. it will be on 20thjune at the tottenham hotspur stadium. this will be the first fight since regaining his three heavyweight belts from andy ruinunior in december. the two men were due to fight back in 2017. but pulev pulled out with injury. pulev is the former european champion, has only lost once in 29 fights.

boxing commentator steve bunce explains why it's the fight that had to happen. if he wants to keep has eyes on that an enormous prize, the first time ever, he has to keep the belt. to keep the belt he has to fight the bulgarian. it's that simple. we've been saying it for 18 months. it's ha rd to been saying it for 18 months. it's hard to avoid at the same time, most people want to avoid it. pulev is a dangerous fighter. at the time, quite honestly i thought that would be the hardest fight ofjosh's career. what pulev has is nothing to lose. in heavyweight boxing, that's the most dangerous thing you can deliver to the ring on the night. it happened to joshua deliver to the ring on the night. it happened tojoshua last deliver to the ring on the night. it happened to joshua last year, deliver to the ring on the night. it happened tojoshua last year, you remember? it was in madison square garden, knocked out. that's the

danger. to cricket as the semi—final line up at the women's t20 world cup is now complete. the holders australia fought back from a terrible start to the tournament to secure their place in the last four with a 4 run victory over new zealand in melbourne. the hostsjoin england, india, and south africa in the semi—finals. 0ur sports reporter, jo currie has more. this was billed as a biggest match of the tournament too so far. it's winner takes all. new zealand won the toss of australia into bat and once they were able to remove alyssa healy early on, the rest of the batting order really performed with beth mooney making 60. in response, new zealand gave it all with some big hitting. they took it all the way to the final over but in the end, they didn't quite have enough with australia eventually claiming a li—run victory. the only way for

australia was witnessing ellyse perry limping off the field with what looked to be a hamstring problem. we do know australia, the defending champions are through to the semi finals. 0nce those are done, we will know who plays who in the last four. the semi finals are also here in sydney on march five. the final takes place in melbourne on march the 8th. and paralympian will bayley was a real star in the latest series of britain's ‘strictly come dancing'. but all the glitz and glamour was cut short for him, as he injured his knee in rehearsals and had to pull out of the show. but now the table tennis champion has his sights on his fourth paralympic games in tokyo this summer. kate grey's been to see him. will bailey and jeanette...

will bailey and jeanette. .. wheel wild on the dance floor last year, but his dancing journey came to an end when he injured his knee during a dress rehearsal. now all the glitz and glam has settled, i wanted to found out more about what happened. i felt excruciating pain when i landed. ijust i felt excruciating pain when i landed. i just kind i felt excruciating pain when i landed. ijust kind of lay down and scream a little bit, and then the next day it said what happened. —— the scan said what happened. it hasn't really sunk in because when you get injured like that, it's not good. i don't regret it, it was such a great experience in such a massive show. i didn't realise how big it was. i went into the shopping centre that everything and got so much support from everyone, it was amazing. just six months ago to the

start of the paralympic games, time is running out for will who is yet to be in training with his team—mates at at the moment. he's still a very —— very confident that he will be on that plane to tokyo. 0n the best player in the world. what will be will be. if you believe you can win, then you've got half a chance. if you write yourself off, you have no chance, so i will write myself off. thanks to some strong performances last year, he has gained enough ranking points to all but confirm his paralympic qualifications. he still has every hope of getting back to the podium. people are saying it's impossible. but i believe it's possible. if i can bring back a metalfrom tokyo definitely,. you wouldn't bet against a player with his determination. you seen bolt will be

hoping that practice makes perfect evenif hoping that practice makes perfect even if it's with a teddy bear before he becomes a dad later on this year —— usain bolt. that's all from sportsday. enjoy the rest of your evening. coming up in a moment, the papers. bye for now. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate andrews, economics correspondent at the spectator, and jack blanchard, editor of politico's london playbook. many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in. the coronavirus could cut global growth in half, according to tomorrow's financial times. the paper says the chancellor is preparing measures to help businesses cope. tomorrow's metro leads on allegations of bullying by home secretary priti patel, made by a former member of her staff. the guardian also reports on what it calls the "pressure on patel", with a photo of the minister leaving work today. 0n coronavirus, the paper says supermarkets are drawing up contingency plans to cope with panic buying. tomorrow's daily express leads on the prime minister's warning that the virus could spread widely within days. the daily mirror focuses on borisjohnson's private life. the paper says he broke the news that he is expecting a baby with his partner carrie symonds just days after the death of his estranged wife's mother—in—law. the daily mail leads on coronavirus two. the papers says volunteer in hs

army has been put on standby to tackle a potential mass epidemic. the says the prime minister plans to give himself sweeping powers to prevent the spread of disease. let's start with the express. boris warns virus likely to spread. so this is ahead of the prime minister launching what they're calling the battle plan to tackle coronavirus tomorrow. this is supposed to contain their efforts to both stop the disease and also delaying the disease from spreading. as we know, globally we're at 80,000 cases over 80,000 cases. we have 39 confirmed cases in the uk. most of those cases can trace from other countries who have been affected. people coming from china or northern italy. there is one case at least where they are not quite sure where that person got

it because they weren't in any of those regions, so they do still say they are in the containing phase, but i think this headline in a drastic way would reflect the fact that we might need to be moving towards delay. this is ahead of this big announcement. deadlines are all about that. a very dramatic moment tomorrow morning. officials are saying we are not going to be able to contain the fires of the country and these are the possible steps that we will have to take. as it spreads more then we will think about doing this, and of course some of those measures, when you get down to the bottom of that action plan are going to look very extreme indeed. in terms of potentially putting areas into lockdown and that kind of thing. we don't know for sure that that will happen by the

government wants people to know that it's prepared for the worst and that it's prepared for the worst and that it's prepared for the worst and that it's prepared to do what's necessary. let's just it's prepared to do what's necessary. let'sjust move on and have a look at some of those measures. each papers headlines are different! how what might happen. who staffs our hospital is critical. absolutely. issues around it resources in the nhs are coming to a head now. we know it's been understaffed for a long time but there have been questions about the resources on whether there's enough to go around. there's concern —— those concerns are coming to a close now. the daily mail report that may try to speed up the process. it says here that helpers could be asked or —— to deliver medicines and this could be required in the wake of doctors themselves treating vulnerable patients and getting sick

themselves. the implication is