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 that they will not have trained staff themselves. the information is they have trained them but they may be looking to get more bodies and to help get to lot of the routine work. this is huge for members of the public who aren't strained medical professionals, but it feels like it could be one of many aspects. we already have many volunteers working in the hospital. i think... they tend to not be doing anything clinical or medical. i'm sure that won't be. why do you think the public will do that? good question. this will be a real test for the whole country. our people prepared to put civil duty —— civic duty ahead of their own fears. our people to be prepared to do that for the good of their community? 0r

to be prepared to do that for the good of their community? or will they insist on going out anyway? all these sorts of things will come to fall in the next months. this will not happen overnight. over the course of the next few weeks, this will be coming up. ijust want to touch on the guardian front page because supermarket plan to feed the nation. two of the key questions eve ryo ne nation. two of the key questions everyone will ask. this feeds into the question of how government will interact with business and all aspects of society to make sure things can continue to run if people we re things can continue to run if people were to have to go into self isolation or if there were to be a big outbreak of the virus in the uk. the guardian is reporting that supermarkets are going to try and work with suppliers if necessary to bring in foods that are considered to be staple. things like bread, rice, pasta that might really sustain you for a long period of

time. i think we haven't seen mass panic buying in this country yet. that's a good thing, it should happen yet. i think basically hand sanitizer seems to be running out. pesto seems to prove difficult to find. as people start to realise how serious the situation is and has the virus starts to spread more, people will have to focus on making sure there's enough food to keep us all going. the thing that nobody knows, every country will be doing this so at what point and after how many months due supply chains become difficult? looking at how this could affect global gdp over the next course of the year, everybody is focused on public health right now as they should be. the economic angle is very important because as you say, if supply chains break

down, if people can't get access to the medicines, if they can't get access to certain parts, then we do get a access to certain parts, then we do geta human access to certain parts, then we do get a human cost eventually. any kind of major economic downturn, especially a recession would have that cost as well. so you want to keep business as usual operating for as long as possible and it does seem like tomorrow, with the announcement of the battle plan, they are also planning to say this is business as usual because as we've seen in china over the past two months, when you do shut things down it doesn't have a huge economic cost and a people toss to. -- people cost. do you think the government should pay people if they will have to have time off and show that apply to everybody? i think if we get to the point where we are in emergency circumstances, it makes more sense to have people at home, cell quarantined that it does to have them going to work because they're too scared to lose out on a paycheque. a paycheque can make or

break whether or not you make rent. that is the type of spending you think would be necessary. it's interesting that the imf and say they are setting aside emergency funding to help countries fight the coronavirus. the ft suggests that particular for coronavirus. the ft suggests that particularfor medical coronavirus. the ft suggests that particular for medical purposes. maybe some of our questions can be addressed emergency funds to address other thing. i think it's an important point. half the people who get these viruses, it's not very serious at all. 50% of people in south korea i don't even show a theatre i think. people won't necessarily be showing. —— show a fever. people might not be very keen to stay—at—home and missed two weeks of work if they won't get paid just because they've been told to self—isolate if they feel like it will be that serious. if the government does want people to try

and isolate in that situation, they can't expect them without two weeks p5y~ can't expect them without two weeks pay. the ft is tailoring a budget to help cope. this would be extortion. sound like it. what's interesting about the politics, this was supposed to be this grand plan, this big giveaway budget where after the election, will come in and spend money and cut taxes. of all the stuff they were going to be doing to show, suddenly they've been completely sidelined by what's looking like it's going to be very serious. they are frantic we —— friendly now rethinking. —— frantically. the priti patel story

has really highlighted a stark difference in the home office and other departments. if we didn't have a global epidemic going on, the story would be all over every front page. we've never really seen a situation like this. i say fallen out as if it's a small thing. you see the nature of some of the claims being made against her former staff, we've never seen this said about senior cabinet members before. patel appears to be in hiding. we haven't heard from her. in the short term, she's getting very strong backing from the prime minister and from her colleagues in the cabinet saying yes, absolutely she can, but over the longer term, it's very hard to

see how she's going to be able to do herjob given the way that people in herjob given the way that people in her—— herjob given the way that people in her —— she's running her department with tens of thousands of people. she has ostracized herself from the most important people running that. ata time, most important people running that. at a time, she's trying to deliver a hugely big change to immigration, recruiting officers, you can't do that if you've lost the trust of your staff. a lot of the agenda has had her at the forefront and they put her in charge of the immigration system that the —— which many brexit voters are looking forward to. that's why i think the results could be an internal investigation. if she is going to continue in thejob, she needs to be able to show that she was found not guilty. that inquiry

is being carried out by the cabinet office. that's the amazing thing, we hear today that the cabinet office are going to investigate this as a sort of government approach to what's happened, and then in the house of commons you have michael gove standing up and saying what a wonderful person in the home secretary is. how much confidence with that give you as a civil servant, sitting there watching? you've already told us what the outcome is. it's not helpful for either side because you don't want to think that somebody is stacking things in your favour if you're innocent and want to be proven innocent. i don't think it's helpful either way. i would say it's good the government does plan to carry out some investigations. previous accusations of bullying did not get the same kind of system put in place for them. but it shouldn't take the most senior civil servant in the department to resign and come out in such an unprecedented and what ——

unprecedented way.|j such an unprecedented and what —— unprecedented way. i think if we learn anything from all of the special adviser issues that have gone and in the past, he words outs that they need better forms of hr. let's touch on a very big day in the us. bernie or biden for president? super tuesday guide. it tomorrow. people and a bunch of different states will be voting tomorrow from alabama, to call gloria, to virginia. super tuesday is big because the primary process for the democrats has been state—by—state. we get a whole bunch of states across the country. the eye is saying that it's bernie sanders or joe biden who are to be standing off. i think you can argue that mike bloomberg is still in there a bit. he has promised to put billions of dollars behind his campaign, so you can't dollars behind his campaign, so you ca n't totally dollars behind his campaign, so you can't totally write that off. you

should have a clear picture by wednesday morning about how these two men are faring in this rates, whether or not bernie sanders can rates ahead or whether or not biden caught up to him. i think it's interesting that the parallels with the uk, you've got the label party with his outside left—wing old guy. the rest of the parties going on my goodness this guy might actually wind! whether they can do it, we will find out tomorrow night. fascinating. that's it for the papers this hour. kate and jack will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thanks again to jack and kate. we will look at some more papers in about half an hour. i have all this top stories in about five minutes.

before that, right now we will take a look at the weather. of course things have changed in the past couple of days. it turned a bit quieter, significant flooding out there that at least a bit of blue sky at times above us. still heavy showers around. it is not dry, but it's just for the time being, a little bit quieter and sunnier. we will get to see some sunshine at some stage tomorrow. it will be breezy out with some showers to be had as there are overnight as well. then we have this area of low pressure to bring more rain for many of us during wednesday to early thursday. overnight, there are showers, especially affecting northern and western parts of the uk. frosty and some spots. could be a few icy passage. —— patches. this

zone of showers has to move across scotland, through england. some could be heavy with hail. that brightens up again with a lot of afternoon sunshine. sunshine in a few more showers heading to us in all parts of scotland. —— some parts of scotland. there are light winds and clear skies on tuesday night. that's a recipe for a widespread frost but look at this later in the night. outbreaks of rain, heading into southwest england. it is more rain. it's an area of low pressure in every forecast is taking that rain now further north. that means on wednesday, across much of england and wales, spreading east and inching into parts of northern ireland and towards southern scotla nd ireland and towards southern scotland as well. may be some hills to do ‘s no developing in the

pennines. —— phil snow. wednesday night into thursday, it's wet for a time. that clears from the east and southeast of england on thursday. there is a brightens up a bit. this comes in on friday and low pressure following into the weekend. it will be turning windier although a little bit milder and less in the way of the sunshine on the way at the weekend unfortunately. there is a bit more rain in the forecast, so just enjoy a bit of blue sky.

guru—murthy this is bbc news. i'm geeta guru—murthy. the headlines at 11. the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk rises to 39, and boris johnson says further transmission is ‘clearly on the cards'. the most important thing now is that we prepare against a possible very significant expansion of coronavirus in the uk population. a sharp rise in calls to 111, as the nhs struggles to cope with the volume of queries, asking for advice. and this evening, some of the british tourists, held in a hotel in tenerife, have returned home. the bbc has seen details of another complaint of bullying, against the home secretary priti patel, this time dating back at least four years. members of the greek coastguard, have been seen shooting near migrants in the sea,

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