sunshine. a cloud frosty start with sunshine. a cloud especially rain heads through wales, south east england and into northern ireland. some snow over the welsh hills, and by the end of the day into the pete district as well. i had of that we look at sunshine in scotland, showers in the northwest. showers in england and wales after the rain clears. here we will see the rain clears. here we will see the highest temperatures. that rain continues to move northwards in a northern england. not expecting huge amounts of rain, 10—15 mm or so, with the rain gradually easing away during wednesday night and thursday morning into the england. another area of low pressure. this could bring some rain through the english channel into the far south of england for once, some heavier rain as well. elsewhere it improves as you had for the north, brightening up, still some showers around mainly for scotland and northern ireland, interpreters around 6— sullivan celsius for large parts of the uk ——

6-7dc. we celsius for large parts of the uk —— 6—7dc. we will find another area of low pressure pushing in for the end of the week. this is a week where there is no great temperature changes on either side of it, so light and patchy rain for the most part, a little hill snow over the north. more showers coming in across the western side of the uk, and some more snow over the higher ground, with temperatures 7—9dc. now into the weekend, we have a deeper area of low pressure approaching from the atlantic. the winds will be strengthening, a few more isobars on the chart, and some fronts on the way. the first one will bring some thinker cloud entry visually rain to the hills. this second one looks more active. that could produce heavy rain across scotland and northern ireland. later in the day over the irish sea to western parts of england and wales. it will be windy, but a mild wind with temperatures in the double figures. however, all rain is not good news. that rain could be heavy as it sweeps its way eastward across

england and wales for. still windy on thursday, strong gale force winds, it is sunshine and showers overnight, lots of showers in the forecast on sunday. those could be heavy with hail and thunder over the hills of the north, temperatures dropping away as the day goes on. now for the outlook, and as you can see here from our city forecast there is the same sustained spell of dry weather. it looks very u nsettled. dry weather. it looks very unsettled. the reason for that is a strongerjet unsettled. the reason for that is a stronger jet stream speeding unsettled. the reason for that is a strongerjet stream speeding across the atlantic, and that will be narrowing straight towards the uk. for the most part in the outlook, we are on the colder side of the jet stream, hence the slightly disappointing temperatures. with that stronger jet stream, we will pick up another area of low pressure, bringing more rain early in the week. back to the showers, and probably another runner bringing wet weather and from the atlantic later on in the week with the wettest of the weather likely in the

north. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. as the number of people infected with coronavirus in the uk rises to si, the prime minister says it's ‘highly likely‘ we will see further infection — and has unveiled the government's plan to tackle the virus. injapan, the olympic authorities say this summer's games are still going ahead, despite the doubts of the country's sports minister. and on wall street, an unexpected cut in us interest rates, amid growing concern, about the economic impact of coronavirus. the home secretary says she regrets the resignation of a top civil servant who made allegations

of bullying against her. it's super tuesday in the united states — democrats in ia states are voting on who they want to take on donald trump in november's presidential election. barclay shoots! and chelsea send league leaders liverpool out of the fa cup, with a 2—0 win at stamford bridge. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are madeline grant from the telegraph and sonia sodha from the observer. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the guardian goes with the coronavirus, reporting government contingency plans to pull police officers off investigations in order to deal with the epidemic. the times says patients may need

to be seen by video to free up doctors' time to deal with the virus. the financial times focuses of the economic cost of the crisis, leading with the emergency rate cut by the us federal reserve. the metro has a picture of the queen wearing white gloves while presenting a medal as a precaution against spreading the illness. the mail carries the same picture and says that people may have to put their social and work lives on hold for three months as a result of the outbreak. the i also reports on the government's plans, saying that in a worst case senario there could be half a million extra deaths in the uk. and the mirror says the crown prosecution service is reviewing it's decision to pursue a prosecution against caroline flack. let's take a look at some of those stories in more detail. let us begin with the daily express. britain ready for the worst in this photograph of the queen and white gloves, quite a popular picture. yes. although i think it is a

wonderful testament to the queen and her resilience. she just puts on the white gloves that match her outfit perfectly and gets on with the job. that is right. today, the prime minister unveiled his kind of form a battle plan after quite a few weeks of criticism that perhaps the government had been giving out mixed messages are not making things clear enough to the public. he did press co nfe re nce enough to the public. he did press conference alongside its chief medical officer and chief scientific officer where they outline some practical steps for citizens to take, but alongside that some of the worst case scenarios, and surprisingly pretty much every newspaper has chosen to leave with the worst case scenario. —— unsurprisingly forethought which include some of the impact on the nhs and the extent to which our day—to—day lives might have to change as a result of the epidemic. we have seen massive changes in parts of the world. china, some shut down and northern italy. it is not surprising, everybody wants to know what is the worst case scenario. we

haven't had for example detailed figures on the mortality rate. this morning they did not give them. for the elderly. now they are not. i think there's probably a lot of uncertainty about the mortality rate at the moment. in generalfor the population it is estimated to be between one to 2%. but that is also cases that are accounted. coronavirus is not to be highly infectious. but it doesn't always present with symptoms and some people are carriers. the mortality rate might be lower. it depends on high effort people and for the owner people, people with underlying medical conditions. so there's not a lot of uncertainty about that and i think one of the things that really caught my eye about the government plans is the contingency planning around not just what the emergency services need to do, but how the emergency services in the nhs might cope with when some of their staff need to self—isolate or stay home or

might be ill, so the police officers, nurses, doctors, and of course, a lot of them have children, so school shut down at a map to be home to self—isolate themselves. that is why the government is talking about some of for example, if lots of police officers are sick, we may need to sort out the say to the police, only investigate the most urgent of crimes. during this period. with the nhs, there has been talk about getting retired doctors and nurses back to work into the international health service. i think of the light of contingency planning is not just think of the light of contingency planning is notjust about what needs to happen, because most workers in the economy may be sick but what happens when the emergency services cannot function at the same way themselves? madalyn, we are a lwa ys way themselves? madalyn, we are always told that these pandemic plans are in the place and they have been built up over the years, the silver service is important in developing goals and private businesses, but this is a massive

challenge for our new prime minister and a new government, somebody‘s whose grasp on detail interests for example in previous has been questioned. the government has got to write to the challenge fast. that is right. when a borisjohnson possibly great virtues in my opinion is the fact these men getting delegating to people who do have that grass with the detail. he was not of the theresa may mould which generally involve massive micromanagement, he want the opposite way. when you are prime minister there are some decision only you can take but generally check working to find a capable people and delegating to them has been quite i find hardening myself. one often hears from those in number ten in that top door that went to the key things is decision—making. this will be a lot about decision—making. it is which priority are you going to put at the top. yes. absolutely. butl priority are you going to put at the top. yes. absolutely. but i think there is a danger that we read a bit much into these headlines. they have been anticipating the worst case scenario come something like 80% of

the population could contract the virus. that hasn't happened or anything like it even in the worst in provinces. there is time to go but we also forget when people re cover but we also forget when people recover from the coronavirus there will be active and able to assist. we still don't know about immunity. we still don't know about immunity. we are presuming and hoping that we have immunity after an infection but often you can get reinfected by viruses. the daily mail has got this picture of the queen as well. it is curious in a way that it has got so much interest. this image. the queen where his gloves on many occasions. but apparently not on this one. this is the queen giving out honours, i palace and people say she would never normally never wear gloves with that. you deal with her bare hands. i guess it isjust quite a striking image that sums it up. that she would do it with her bare hands. that the coronavirus contingency

planning affects everyone. from the queen at the very top commit down and from cabinet ministers down and really i suppose that everybody is at risk. everybody needs to follow the public health measures. prince william and kate also in ireland, a p pa re ntly william and kate also in ireland, apparently have been film—making a bit of a passing joke, and about coronavirus. a lot of people are. sculptures chosen are. i think a bit of dark humour about the coronavirus is something that helps mankind through a difficult situation. —— schoolchildren are. the story i heard about the children is that instead of saying tact they haven't sank saying coronavirus. laughter. —— they sank saying coronavirus. laughter. — — they have sank saying coronavirus. laughter. —— they have been saying. sank saying coronavirus. laughter. -- they have been saying. prince william was talking to somebody in the endless habit of saying everybody has got coronavirus and i'm dying and you just have to cough. —— somebody in the ablest average. the question of we just don't know. he was clearlyjust making a joke and that is fine but obviously, i think the nhs will be

getting people to be cautious. the daily mail headline, life on hold for three months now. what they are talking about here is what boris johnson and the scientific experts stood up today to say was that ultimately, perhaps avoiding contact outside of work and school is something that is a precaution we might have to take. avoiding elderly friends or relatives that make there will be a lot of people who might be concerned about that particularly if their parents have carriers. the charis my have to go off sick or some the lease self—isolate. —— the carriers. add another point e—mail article is making that if the social plans and the advice maybe basically don't socialise for a couple of months. that would have a massive local impact on the economy whether it is restaurants, or theatres, or shopping. or tourist attractions. but the key pressure is going to be on hospitals, isn't it? and whether really we have the capacity, matt

hancock talked about wanted to give some respirators to people to use in their homes because if the numbers all come together at once rather than being staggered over a long time, there is no hospital capacity for everybody. exactly. also, it seems inevitable that any non—essential surgery will be immediately postponed. it may even be the case that they have to bring ina pop—up be the case that they have to bring in a pop—up unit to cope with the demand. butl in a pop—up unit to cope with the demand. but i guess this is the problem with these worst—case scenarios, you end up panicking the population so much that people who probably shouldn't be in a&e nevertheless converge on a because they are worried and stressed about their symptoms. do you think you have too far? i don't think have gone too far, i suppose the issue is that the timing of it. you have to be careful at what point you start to escalate things that you're doing it at the right time. when it is appropriate rather than doing it early looking people and spooking the markets as well. they are trying to warn people and giving people a

timeline. and said this will build up timeline. and said this will build up over timeline. and said this will build up over a timeline. and said this will build up over a couple of months. timeline. and said this will build up over a couple of monthslj timeline. and said this will build up over a couple of months. i think the government has essentially accepted now and i think health experts will is it looks like it is going to spread now and we are at the tipping points all the emphasis is on trying to slow the spread is much as possible, because that will make a massive difference in capacity and services like the nhs if you're able to might have the same number of cases but if it is spread over five months same number of cases but if it is spread overfive months instead of three months, that would make a huge difference. and into the summer. the times focusing on the nhs insane patients face video check as nhs plans virus wards. the idea that you could be diagnosed just do your phone i guess. the people who are not having very severe symptoms, that sounds quite smart to me. not having very severe symptoms, that sounds quite smart to mam sounds quite smart to me. it comes in the wake ofjust days around is

111 in the wake ofjust days around is iii giving people the right advice for example, some gps have reported that 111 in the early days was wrongly kind of advising people to go to gp hubs which is not the right advice actually if you been to an area and travel there and our strong symptoms. it is very much self—isolate. and then talk to somebody on the one on one line. the question is whether you can get through. there have been complaints. the sunday telegraph reported that the 111 services were completely overwhelmed last weekend. but i definitely think this getting in touch via video link will become more of a feature of day—to—day life, as people want to avoid the elderly relatives for fear of infecting them. i think it will be a lot more that life that happens on whatsapp check at facebook.. different thing to chat to your mother on do the thing which i'm sure a lot of us do but to be actually diagnosed normally you want the doctor to... they brought up in trying to bring the technology into

the nhs increasingly something i believe dominic cummings has passionate about. but the risk is you miss something serious, isn't it by not having a face—to—face? or you could miss something else. but that would be the risk with any use of the technology. that seems to be the general trajectory not just in britain but around the world. he asked. they are talking about virus wards of the time. —— yes. the chief scientific officer today said no need to panic, no need to panic by as well which is another key worry. i think we've already seen that happen. a lot of stories for example about you literally not being able to get any hand gel and that were some people need to on a day—to—day basis to manage. they have weak immune systems in hand gel is better at protecting against bacteria and viruses like run there has been a lot of panic in some ways you can understand it but i think the government is really trying to put out the reassuring message and trying to catch up a bit for lost

time, there was a lotto consider some of the last week it didn't send ministers and the lakes in the got ministers and the lakes in the got ministers on the programme and give more britton shows that a lot of people watch because of this petty media fight. —— good morning britain. it has them rallied around this now. they have people out now but towards the end of last week, we didn't hear ministerial tones on the airways. just one more light on the nhs, saying that as we reported here earlier that the nhs has declared this at level four incident which gra nts this at level four incident which grants it apparently according to the paper an emergency person taking control of local hospitals. —— local power to take control. presumably to isolate people and put people in and move them and move resources. this feels like a to our generation action and pose challenges? -- wartime. moving towards the commander economy in some way. very

much, echoes of the fence of the realm act from 1915, you often get this in times of crisis. it hopefully it temporarily but more authority alleges terrien comes into i would say an extra push people into the right behaviour. one whirring headlight of the guardian, bird inquiries to be asked if iris hits police numbers. that's one warming headline. crucial to maintain law and order. if the police are really pushed to the brink with their own staffing shortages, and can only handle the most serious cases, that leaves a lot of other pretty worrying social behaviour out there. yes. it does potentially. this is really about if police officers cannot turn up to work because they are sick or their stated leave my kids are at school, what happens. suggestion the army might be drafted in. the real of law is really critical but i suppose on the other hand, a lot of people are having to stay at home, we have been told to curtail our social life and

igo told to curtail our social life and i go out and socialise too much, work from home maybe one would hope that might be left for the police to do. not sure yet. let's move on to one other piece of news. —— it might less work for the police to do. a lot of pressure for them to do something. to help shore up the economy. which will be a challenge a few months. they are talking about ending the freeze on the fuel duty here. is thisjust ending the freeze on the fuel duty here. is this just speculation? ending the freeze on the fuel duty here. is thisjust speculation7m seems like it. my instinct would be this will be very bad politics in the for the conservative party to relax the fuel duty fees given the makeup of the new coalition but that it is very strong group of car owners. labour's trusted cities and people who used transport in the torah coalition the people who drive to work. i think it shows how far they have fallen down. —— tori

coalition. —— the greta thunberg grab hold. they're having to put in policies to catch up with the carbon in missions but it is damaging and there is such a strong feeling of an inference that there was a slight rise in yields or to which i got their protest. this kind of thing has the possibility of going to at the same time, fuel duty is something they get phrased by government after government. something they get phrased by government after governmentm something they get phrased by government after government. it is not the right thing to do for me growing perspective or a climbing perspective. i suspect it is not really going to happen in this budget for the reason she just alim but it is the right thing to do and i think governments need to start preparing for it. the time finally. borisjohnson picks the women who matter most to him. not including either his mother or margaret thatcher or the woman he's about to marry. yes. none of the above. quite an elected group. an international women's day. the list compiled his grandma, boudicca, the queen of the ic nine, the formidable head of his

policy unit, the singer kate bush, and bilal yousef, reunited at last. i would at that that boudicca would've been a benefit for somebody like dominic cummings she is very much in favour of our brain except to the ground. it is a pr stunt, politicians always pick these things, what it says about them in the press. —— bring stuff to the ground. johnson's team will be pleased to have a bit of a showing on the time front page. and also it a flex from any talk of actual politics or his personal life. you can focus on the zany headline. —— it deflects. i'm not sure politics or his personal life will be blown out of the water by this given the state where in at the moment. and this huge coronavirus challenge the government is facing. thank you very much you both for going through all of the front page for us. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online

on the bbc news website. 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. the sport is coming up. for now, thank you to sonja ed matta line for staying up so late and looking up to the papers. goodbye for now. —— a sangha and a matta line for staying up hello there, we've had three fa cup ties tonight, liverpool are out, their third defeat in four matches. chelsea winning 2—0 to reach the quarterfinals. nick parrott reports. the last time these two met in the fa cup was the final eight years ago. chelsea triumphed on that occasion and a repeat would keep alive their hopes this season. liverpool's focus is on the league.

once again, jurgen klopp runs the changes for the cup. and once again it worked for him. he would have been pleased until recently until the 13th minute. chelsea were sloppy in the back too. justifying his return to the starting line—up. the world's most expensive goalkeeper was saving everything liverpool could throw at him. and another one! his efforts weren't the only spectacular ones of the evening. ross barkley had extra motivation against liverpool. the former midfielder left the reds trailing in his wake as he powered chelsea into the quarterfinals. it could and should have been more, but adrian been more, but adrian redeemed himself. for a second match in a row, liverpool couldn't offer anything in response.

just their congratulations to a chelsea side who will be dreaming of wimbley. nick parent, bbc news. really proud because they're the best tea m really proud because they're the best team in the land. then the man city have proven that. where they are doing in the league is incredible. for us to put the effort in the focus, and a determination in the quality that we put into the game, it was something special. —— in them and man city have proven that. what they have been doing in the league. newcastle are through to the quarters for the first time in ia years, they beat the championship leaders west bromwich albion 3—2. miguel almiron opened the scoring after the half—hour mark with a really well taken goal he made it two just before the break. joelinton found him with a brilliant back—heel. valentino lazzaro added a third before the baggies staged a late comeback, this from kenneth zohore made it 3—2 in stoppage time but it's newcastle who go through. it looked as though it would be an easy night

for sheffield united at reading, they scored after a couple of minutes through david mcgoldrick, his first goal in 11 months. but the championship side equalised, george puscas with a penaltyjust before the break. no replays at this stage so extra time it was, and substiute billy sharp headed the winner, billy sharp headed the winner. 2-1 the 2—1 the final score. there was a huge win for hearts in the scottish premiership, derby against hibs. it was goaless at half—time but a penalty and then this beatty from oliver bozanic saw hearts go two up. conor washington added a third inside the last ten minutes before hibs pulled one back. hearts beat rangers over the weekend and this is the first time they've had back—to—back wins since daniel stendel took over as manager three months ago. the draw for the second edition of the uefa nations league has been made today,

with all the home nations involved. england have been drawn against iceland, denmark and belgium with the games taking place in the autumn. wales are in with the republic of ireland, bulgaria and finland. scotland have drawn israel, slovakia and czech republic. northern ireland will play austria, romania and norway. despite the impact of the coronavirus on global sport, the ioc president thomas bach says it's business as usual for the olympic games in tokyo this summer and he's urged competitors to contune their preparations for the scheduled start ofjuly 24th. he was speaking at an executive committee meeting in laussane today. 12 people have died injapan with around a thousand cases of the virus identified. that's all the sport for now. hello. we know it was a very wet winter and the met office says it was the uk's third at least frosty

winter on record. we are starting wednesday actually with a widespread frost. but also more rain of their way from these weather fronts, particularly into parts of england are well. still some uncertainty about how far north that rain will spread, north arlington to stay dry and scotland to but a few showers in the west. in terms of the feel of the west. in terms of the feel of the weather first thing, most of us seeing that frost with temperatures have been down too far. —— north ireland. this is where we are stating that they would cloud and operates a rain. this pushes a very gradually move north and east across the rest of southern england, wales into the mid—lives. but some uncertainty still about how much of this rain is going to filter through northern england but further south they could turn what you're in north you are could stay dry. much of our stay dry a bar a few showers and clouds going to increase. chartres scotland, dry wood sunshine, it will feel a bit cooler. we could see hill snow and before this pulls away.

clear spells and scotland, northern ireland and overnight and the thursday morning. perhaps developing to northern england, leading to another frost going into thursday or elsewhere was to have cloud and temperatures hold up. on thursday, potential for sump soaking rain to the channel islands. southern counties of england. strong winds to but i like to play for and how far north any rain here on thursday is going to get. watch this space. showers in northwest scotland on thursday, elsewhere it looks mainly dry. fairly quiet on friday, there isa dry. fairly quiet on friday, there is a weak weather system moving east across the uk on friday. it will bring at least some cloud but also some of us will see patchy rain and hail snow. there is a stronger weather system on the way, into the weekend. a deeper area of low pressure will come our way and would ta ke pressure will come our way and would take a look at the big picture in here it is heading in from the elective. it means when your conditions developing again as we go into the weekend come and this man of what weather will sink south on

saturday and the further south you are you may not see too much rain during daylight hours, and then once that it during daylight hours, and then once thatitis during daylight hours, and then once that it is out of the way, the part two of the weekend on sunday, it is sunshine, but also blustery showers. that is your forecast.

hello, and a very warm welcome to bbc news. i'm katty kay. i'm christian fraser — we're here in washington our main stories. polls start to close in the biggest day yet in the race for the white house. democrats in ia states choose who they want to run against donald trump in november's election the frontrunner, 78—year—old senator bernie sanders, cast his ballot in his hometown of burlington in the state of vermont, which is likely to be the first to declare. the former vice—president, joe biden, is trying to catch up, having been given a boost by endorsements from former rivals. and they will be up against a number of other contenders for the nomination, including senators and a billionaire.