financial times, coronavirus. financial times, says long—term economic prospects are expected to be downgraded in the event of the budget which is on march 11. because of the impact of boris johnson ‘s post—brexit crackdown on eu immigration. finally, the metro says the doctor says no, that is the headline on the front page of the metro, looking at the delayed release of the latest james bond movie, which is called no time to die. many are pointing out the irony of the title of that film. so let's begin with rebecca harding, who's ceo and founder of coriolis tech. this has been the case every day this week and last week, it is all about coronavirus to a great degree. the daily telegraph focusing on the uk, numbers going up and up by the day but this article is looking at the concern that actually in king's college hospital there are two new patients that were ona ward.

are two new patients that were on a ward. i think the danger here is we're going to get a lot of these stories. the stories will get more about the nhs, whether or not the virus can transfer between people, we are going to get more of these stories but there's also a lot detail in this piece about other stories as well, about the duke of cambridge, has comments to paramedics saying we are over escalating the issue at the moment. the big underlining story of all of this is really the uncertainty andi this is really the uncertainty and i think that is what we are dealing with at the moment. we don't know, there's another element and hear about the virus mutating, becoming more dangerous, we don't necessarily know what's going on, we're going to get a lot of these stories at the moment i think and it's that which is making market is volatile, making gdp forecast difficult, all of this isa forecast difficult, all of this is a context to an economic and a social crisis at the moment. this is the issue and the fact that, it is mentioned in this article that some are saying,

well, actually it was the duke of cambridge, suggesting the crisis has been a little hyped up crisis has been a little hyped up by crisis has been a little hyped up by the media, that is what he had to say yesterday to a paramedic. it is an interesting situation because those of us within the media are very aware of that and yet this story has got its own momentum. in my own home, my children are updating me about what's going on. i'm cooking dinner and my son is saying, ma'am, the cases have gone up. at school they are being taught how to wash their hands, what to do, it's everywhere stopping the conversation is ongoing wherever you are, no matter whether you are across what the media paying or not. you go to meetings and people aren't shaking your hand anymore, this hand sanitiser, and one of the things and that is that the government has said that it won't be broadcasting minute by minute updates as much, and that has been criticised because obviously the public

wa nts to because obviously the public wants to know the scale of all of this. you have to remember, in defence of the duke of cambridge, you have to remember that actually, is a very low probability that you will get this and at the moment, and this and at the moment, and this is all about, it's not about containment anymore, it's about containment anymore, it's about managing this deed of escalation of all of this and managing the treatment of it, because obviously then we are ina much because obviously then we are in a much more secure situation if we are managing the process. and this daily telegraph article is talking about how within the nhs itself, within hospitals, king's college hospital was in a lockdown last night as it discovered that two patients had got coronavirus, how they are trying to manage that within. let's look at arab news, because in the middle east, this article on the front page talks about the fact that saudi arabia has imposed a ban on overseas pilgrims visiting the grand mosque for very

important religious events, eve ryo ne important religious events, everyone is having to take very important measures to prevent the spread. this is about maths gatherings, so obviously it is difficult because it is at a time where there are very important religious festivals as you said, but this is about two things, an underlying suspicion that there are 3000 oi’ suspicion that there are 3000 or $0 cases across the suspicion that there are 3000 or so cases across the middle east, nobody really knows exactly how many there are because there's affair that there is a little bit of lack of transparency, particularly from around about how many cases have actually been identified, so there is a sense in which the region is imposing a degree of lockdown on itself in order to contain the virus but also there might be a political undertone to that as well. there certainly is, when you read the article there's a lot of finger—pointing at around, the suggestion that irene is not being very

transparent about what is going on inside iran, there are 92 deaths and of course a real concern about that spread, the spread of that from elsewhere across the middle east. the daily mail looks at flybe, many papers have the story, of course they don't have the very latest, it was only when i arrived morning at about three o'clock that a learned it has filed for administration and has officially collapsed. talks about how regional airlines are under some pressure. there is a discussion, not just under some pressure. there is a discussion, notjust when it comes to flights but trains, any sort of regional transport where it is very hard to make money and run a profitable business, and yet there is a real need to get us around, especially in the area of climate crisis. absolutely. there will be an issue around regional airlines and whether oi’ regional airlines and whether or not that is climate only, i'm sure. and this is really important for regional policy, because the problem that we have at the moment as we have

bits of the uk that are actually quite cut off by train services, this links to the whole debate about environmental sustainability, the whole transport infrastructure of the uk and the levelling up of the regions across the uk, so this is a much bigger story actually then just the collapse of flybe. obviously it is significant but has big regional productivity. if we move onto the budget which is the front page of the financial times, the flybe colla pse financial times, the flybe collapse is a big story for our current government who promised they would do a lot in their ma nifesto to they would do a lot in their manifesto to improve transport in the regions as it were. and when it says here that britain's long—term economic growth are expected to be downgraded in the budget week, they are talking for the office for budget responsibility and what it will predict, so why are they saying there could be are they saying there could be a downgrade or this is all about immigration, priti

patel‘s immigration policy and that puts a particular constraint on recruiting low skilled workers on salaries of £25,000, so there is a lot of evidence to suggest that we are so evidence to suggest that we are so dependent on low skilled workers and the nhs, in hospitals, in hotels, in catering and agriculture, and what this is saying is that it will reduce the size of the labour force and therefore make us labour force and therefore make us have a lower level of output, so it's a productivity story, again. there was a much expectation about this budget, it's been delayed, it's not going to be delivered by sajid javid now, many are hoping for a lot in it to help the economy with coronavirus and various other issues that are sort of, you know, dogging the uk economy right now. exactly, and if you look at the oecd last week they forecast that the highest level of growth possibly given coronavirus and everything else that's going on

will be 0.9% which is a very modest level of growth, so there are concerned there. let's talk about the metro, lots of people playing around with puns and jokes about the decision to postpone the premiere of the latest james bond film. we are asking our viewers, are you choosing not to go to the movies right now because of coronavirus. many have been in touch, some are saying it's business as usual but some are saying that img am choosing not to go to the cinema. don't forget, this is also a box office revenue story as well. of people are deciding not to go to the cinema, they are not going to make the money. it's an expensive thing to make a james bond film. it's a lot of money, but the important thing is that people are beginning to change their behaviours, and that will have an impact on the leisure industry, on travel, tourism,

and we are already seeing empty shelves and supermarkets, so it is having an impact on the way we are behaving, that affects consumer behalf dominic demand and that has consequence for the economy. thank you very much indeed for coming and, we have had many questions about going to the movies, 120 is a sense gloves, masks, stay—at—home, avoid public transport, be mindful of where things come from that you are buying. avoid eating out. all sorts there that he is not doing. thank you for all of your comments, #bbcthebriefing, andi your comments, #bbcthebriefing, and i will see you soon. hello.

overall, thursday, ithink, won't be too bad a day across the majority of the uk. there should be some decent sunshine, just a few showers here or there. quite a chilly start, though, with some patchy frost and fog. the one major exception is the far south of the uk. we have an area of low pressure that's ploughing into the continent, bringing very heavy rain into france and it willjust glance southern counties of england for the first half of the day. so, looking pretty wet as that low works its way to the south, certainly i think from the latter part of the rush hour into the lunchtime period, across the south—eastern quadrant of the uk, the rain could get as far north as essex, it should gradually clear come the afternoon. in contrast, look how quiet it is elsewhere. behind the area of rainfall, showers pulling into east anglia, the west of scotland and northern ireland. temperatures still struggling a little for many of us, highs ofjust 7 or 8 degrees. come thursday evening, the low pulls away. we will see a more organised

band of showers coming in from the west. with light winds ahead of it, though, temperatures likely to fall. a fairly extensive frost. where there are showers, ice could be a significant risk across western britain first thing on friday. this front, though, is kind of a patchy affair for the rain through friday daytime, more showery than coming in in a solid and persistent block, and it may manifest as some thickening cloud for a time as it drifts in from the west on friday. most likely to see some showers, scotland, northern ireland, western wales and the far south—west of england. far south, showers around. the weekend, another big area of low pressure heading our way, shouldn't be anywhere near as severe as the feature we saw last weekend, and the worst of the rainfall should sweep through overnight saturday into sunday. so for saturday, well, yes, a lot of cloud around, a lot of dry weather, rain through the afternoon in northern ireland and scotland. temperatures on saturday around average for the time of year.

we are talking around 9 or 10 degrees. as this system rolls through overnight, though, temperatures in some spots may come up as a plume of warm air ahead of the front, but for sunday, we are plunged into cooler conditions behind it and some quite sharp showers running around. some sunny intervals at times as well. temperatures look similar on the face of it for sunday, but it will deal feel chillier on sunday as we pick up a north—westerly wind.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and charlie stayt. our headlines today. the end for flybe. britain's biggest regional airline goes into administration — partly caused by the coronavirus outbreak. the airline failed to reach a deal with the government over a £100 million bailout. the news puts thousands ofjobs and the future of several uk airports at risk. a new report says the nhs doesn't have enough nurses, as health officials warn we're likely to see a coronavirus epidemic. schools and colleges across italy have shut for ten days,