,off , off with the ,off with the mail. eff with the mail. sonia, this ,off with the mail. sonia, this picture of the queen, which has been pretty popular on the papers and their headline life on hold for three months. the picture of the queen, she's giving honours at buckingham palace and apparently it's the first time she's ever worn gloves to do this. she wears gloves a lot, doesn't she? usually not indoors i suppose. i guess it's sort ofa indoors i suppose. i guess it's sort of a striking image of how it's affecting —— coronavirus doesn't affecting —— coronavirus doesn't affect everyone. we saw in iran where we saw the deputy health minister fall where we saw the deputy health ministerfall ill. no one is com pletely ministerfall ill. no one is completely immune to it. it shows that even the queen is taking public health measures, so it perhaps it set a good example for the rest of us. set a good example for the rest of us. the key story really on the front of the mail and a lot of the papers tonight is about the government's action plan. there's been a lot of criticism of the prime

minister in recent days about where is he, why he's taking so many days, but he really did sort of come out all guns blazing in a press conference today with lots of public health experts around him. really setting out the details of the plan, and that's what a lot of the pages have splashed on. i think it's worth stressing, it's a worse case in our area that we are talking about. —— worst case scenario. area that we are talking about. —— worst case scenario. it's one in five people who can get sick. what would happen for example to the police, apparently they would be sort of held off investigating, even in quite serious investigations like murders. the army might be drafted in. what will happen to the nhs, what will people be advised in terms of working patterns, social... it's worth reading. they are preparing

the public are they? it's a tricky balance to strike. you risk doing things like for example, smoking people and encouraging people to clog up a&e before that's necessary. —— scaring people. and potentially destabilise the entire economy, but at the same time it is worth preparing for every eventuality. matt hancock said earlier today they we re matt hancock said earlier today they were preparing for the best but kind of working towards preparing for the worst, but working towards the best. the mail's headlines are talking about 6 million workers could be out. i suppose the economically is

that there will be so much destruction to the economy, so like restau ra nts, destruction to the economy, so like restaurants, hotels, shops, most definitely will have impacts of people staying at home. there might be some winners, things like delivery services. guardian has a pretty serious take on this. keeping basic law and order and making sure that it isn't just basic law and order and making sure that it isn'tjust the most serious crimes that police respond to, but they can respond to things that we expect them to. it's pretty important. absolutely. they're also preparing for a situation in which many officers are treating this illness, and maybe i'll be the case that army may be hafted drafted in —— may that army may be hafted drafted in — — may have that army may be hafted drafted in —— may have to be drafted in. that army may be hafted drafted in -- may have to be drafted in. they are talking about some police

investigations halted. you sort of think of your emergency services being there in a situation like this, but of course if it was the worst case this, but of course if it was the woi’st case scenario this, but of course if it was the worst case scenario in terms of the number of people being infected, the number of people being infected, the number of people being infected, the number of people being told to self—isolate and stay at home, schools are closing for example, all of our nurses and doctors and officers, so actually kind of the issueisis officers, so actually kind of the issue is is that the ability of the emergency services and health services to respond? is important to remember it's the elderly stop at —— and we all have to keep away from from elderly parents and relatives because that's where emotionality numbers are higher.” because that's where emotionality numbers are higher. i think is particularly worrying if you got pa rents a re particularly worrying if you got parents are older relatives that get regular care from professional care

staff and what happens if your pa rents ca re staff and what happens if your parents care worker has to self—isolate. what happens if they aren't enough care workers? lots of questions. what happens with kids at school would be very important because at the moment —— the moment they decide to keep kids at home, there many parents that will struggle to find childcare. i think that would be very much the kind of nuclear button in a very critical situation. they would want to employ that at all costs. the ft has an economic take. for the first time i think that —— it's critical. economic take. for the first time i think that -- it's critical. it has the aira panic think that -- it's critical. it has the air a panic about it in a way. it doesn't send off particularly strong messages of continent, confidence. it makes you wonder

that's there is something the american markets know that we don't. sticking with the us, let's move on to the independent. they have a picture of bernie sanders costing his boat. —— casting his boat. picture of bernie sanders costing his boat. -- casting his boat. it's hugely determinative and the ultimate result. it seems to be a two horse race between biden and sanders. and one candidate, you have conformity, you have something much closer to hillary clinton. we know that trump beat her already. it may be we you have a fight fire with fire and sanders would do much better. under the bloomberg factor? i think that will be interesting because mike bloomberg has sort of laid it so differently from nominees in the past. these enter a race very

late. he's the first —— he's given state a complete mess. he could do that because he so rich. he has a lot money and it's been running all these huge, expensive adverts. a lot of people i think thought he might have a certain momentum around him and in the polling, it's not clear that that's the case. i think it's interesting that sanders is absolutely the leading candidate it's very hard to see the how he will not race till the end. there been a lot of question marks about who will his main contender be. a lot of people thought for some time it might be bloomberg, but actually it might be bloomberg, but actually it looks like it might be back to biden. he pulled much better among african americans. all the money bloomberg has thrown has done very little good. the difference between him in trouble is trump raise most

of his money from smoking —— small—scale donations. of his money from smoking —— small-scale donations. at striking that the three potential runners—up are not very young, white men. if you look at the resurrection of the left, often we link politics, both have been in the doldrums. how much is the paper looking... there'll be a lot of people in the us looking at what's here around the general election result with jeremy corbyn and thinking, what does this mean for us as democrats? i actually think it is unfair. in the sense that i think that bernie sanders is notjeremy corbyn. i think he has actually achieved a lot of stuff in american politics. he shown an ability to compromise, in a way that

jeremy corbyn simply had not in british politics. although they may have similar messages, it's not a strong comparison. i think they been more likely to vote, particularly when you look at the culture in america. economics is a part of the equation and trump did so well by saying he can bring backjobs, so economics is part of it. but i think the culture trends, not transcend those politics in the way and you need someone who doesn't sound like a conformity hillary clinton candidate in order to beat someone like donald trump. bernie sanders is a democratic candidate. can left populism work against politics? some people say that's because jeremy corbyn is just not the candidate to do it, just wasn't good in it. bernie sanders is i think considered

to bea bernie sanders is i think considered to be a much better sort of politician to voters, and there are certainly people who say they spoke of the people who voted first trump who would vote for bernie sanders. will that play out in a general election was my only time will tell. i think it's a big task for the left. when you look at the polling, a lot of the public felt corbyn was not credible as a candidate. it may be someone like sanders that commands greater loyalty among voters. we will see. it will be an interesting night. just on the guardian now. this is a very interesting health care story. yes. so it's the story that women going into labour are frequently being refused an epidural.

extraordinarily, a representative reports that pain relief is sometimes being treated as a nice extra, rather than an essential part of the procedure. it's quite interesting that this particular belief, as i understand it, seems to have proliferated recently because there's been a sort of earth mother style approach of these things in which they seem to look upon pain relief as suspicious. it seems extraordinary that they seems —— they are saying women are refusing epidurals which is in breach of official guidelines. epidurals are not looked on by some midwives as something to do, and there has been a sort of natural birth ideology. if you look at investigations into

mother and baby deaths, that has been found to be associated with poor outcomes with mother and babies, i unavoidable deaths. i don't think it's a surprise to a lot of women that you're supposed to be a bearer as a women and pain relief is not really for you. this is an official government study. i think there'll be a lot of angle about this. i've never had children but i'm very sure if it ever happened, i will be demanding that epidural! for the fibre of my being! thanks very much indeed. we will be back in half an hour. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co. uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. see you soon.

hello. allied widespread frost is setting in across the uk so a wide widespread frost is setting and across the uk so upholds start to tomorrow is on the way. brain is on the way as well. so that will bring some cloud. —— rain is on the way. this is the frost to start the day. temperature is not going down too far. you have the cloud and outbreak of rain here. tomorrow, increasing cloud in northern ireland and northern england. may not see too much rain but at least some showers starting to push and. scotland will stay fine and see some sunshine. it will feel a bit cooler. we may see a bit of hail so towards the peak district. clear spells for northern ireland, for scotland, developing

into northern england. we are likely to see a frost as thursday begins and then on thursday, we could well see another spell of heavy rain towards the channel —— channel islands. we will keep you updated on that. showers for northwest scotland. a lot of dry weather on thursday. there is a weather front moving there on friday. this one is a weak one. a bit apache rain, perhaps some hill snow. nothing looking particularly wet on friday a stronger area of low pressure is moving in for the weekend. here it is coming in from the atlantic and that means the wind will be picking up that means the wind will be picking up once again that means the wind will be picking up once again over that means the wind will be picking up once again over the weekend. it's quite blustery out there. the further south you are, you may not see too much of that rain during daylight hours. behind that weather system by the time to get a sunday,

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